Thomas Kutschaty

Thomas Kutschaty
Kutschaty in 2022
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
6 March 2021
DeputyMarc Herter
Elvan Korkmaz
Veith Lemmen
Sören Link
Dörte Schall
Preceded bySebastian Hartmann
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
27 April 2018
Chief WhipSarah Philipp
Preceded byNorbert Römer
Minister of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
15 July 2010 – 27 June 2017
Minister PresidentHannelore Kraft
Preceded byRoswitha Müller-Piepenkötter
Succeeded byPeter Biesenbach
Member of the
Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
for Essen I – Mülheim II
Assumed office
8 June 2005
Preceded byConstituency created
Personal details
Born
Thomas Kutschaty

(1968-06-12) 12 June 1968 (age 56)
Essen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materRuhr University Bochum

Thomas Kutschaty (born 12 June 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the leader of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2021 to 2023.[1]

Kutschaty has been a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005 and the parliamentary leader of the SPD since 2018. Prior to this, Kutschaty served as the State Minister for Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2010 till 2017.

  1. ^ Korfmann, Matthias (6 March 2021). "NRW-SPD wählt Thomas Kutschaty zum neuen Vorsitzenden". www.waz.de (in German). Retrieved 27 September 2021.