Johann Saathoff

Johann Saathoff
Saathoff in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1967-12-09) 9 December 1967 (age 56)
Emden, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD

Johann Saathoff (born 9 December 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[1] He has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.

From 2020 until 2021, Saathoff served as the German government's Coordinator for Inter-Societal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.[2]