Anja Hajduk | |
|---|---|
 Hajduk in 2014 | |
| Minister of City Development and Environment of Hamburg | |
| In office 2008–2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-06-08)8 June 1963 (age 62) |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Duisburg, University of Hamburg |
| Website | http://www.anja-hajduk.de/ |
Anja Hajduk (born 8 June 1963) is a Germanpsychologist andpolitician of theAlliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in theFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz since 2021.[1]
Hajduk was born in Duisburg and has three brothers. After herAbitur, she studied psychology inDuisburg and then inHamburg. She finished her studies at the university with aDiplom in 1988. Hajduk is alesbian.[2]
From 1997 to 2002 Hajduk was a member of the parliament of the cityHamburg.
From 2002 to 2008 Hajduk was a member of the GermanBundestag. She was a member of theGreen Party's parliamentary group, serving as deputy chairwoman of theBudget Committee of Bundestag and her group's spokesperson on the national budget.[3] Between 2005 and 2009, she also served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
From 7 May 2008 to December 2010 Hajduk was theMinister of City Development and Environment of Hamburg, serving in the state governments of subsequent mayorsOle von Beust (2008–2010) andChristoph Ahlhaus (2010).[4]
In the2013 federal elections, Hajduk was again elected member of the German Bundestag where she served asChief Whip of her parliamentary group. A member of the Budget Committee, she served asrapporteur on the budgets of theFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; theFederal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (since 2013); theFederal Ministry of the Interior; and theBundestag; and theFederal Chancellery (2018–2021). From 2014 until 2017, she was also a member of the so-calledConfidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services,BND,BfV andMAD.
In addition to her committee assignments, Hajduk also served as deputy chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group withAustralia,New Zealand andEast Timor and as full member of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2013 until 2017.[5]
In 2014, Hajduk was part of theHeinrich Böll Foundation’s Commission on Financial Policy which developed a comprehensive concept on Germany's fiscal policy.[6]
In September 2020, Hajduk announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign her seat by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, she was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and thenational budget, co-chaired byDoris Ahnen,Lisa Paus andChristian Dürr.[8]
