Matthias Miersch

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Matthias Miersch
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
Personal details
Born	(1968-12-19) 19 December 1968 (age 55) Hannover, West Germany (now Germany)
Citizenship	German
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	Leibniz University Hannover
Occupation	Criminal defense lawyer

Matthias Miersch (born 19 December 1968) is a German criminal defense lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Member of the German Parliament since 2005, representing the Hannover-Land II district. He focusses on environmental policy.^[1]

Since 2013, Miersch has been a member of the party's executive board under successive chairpersons Sigmar Gabriel (2013-2017), Martin Schulz (2017-2018), Andrea Nahles (2018-2019), Norbert Walter-Borjans (2019–2021), Saskia Esken (since 2019) and Lars Klingbeil (since 2021).