Bettina Hagedorn | |
|---|---|
 Hagedorn in 2014 | |
| Parliamentary State Secretary for Finance | |
| In office 14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021 Serving with Christine Lambrecht (2018-2019),Sarah Ryglewski (since 2019) | |
| Minister | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Michael Meister |
| Member of theBundestag forOstholstein - Stormarn-Nord | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Ingo Gädechens |
| Constituency | Ostholstein - Stormarn-Nord |
| Member of theBundestag forSchleswig-Holstein | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | State-Wide List |
| Member of theBundestag forOstholstein | |
| In office 22 September 2002 – 27 October 2009 | |
| Succeeded by | Ingo Gädechens |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Bettina Siebmann (1955-12-26)26 December 1955 (age 69) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Bettina Hagedorn (néeSiebmann, born 26 December 1955) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since September 2002, representingOstholstein - Stormarn-Nord. From 2018 to 2021, she also served as Parliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of Finance under ministerOlaf Scholz in thefourthcoalition government ofChancellorAngela Merkel.[1]
Hagedorn was born inKiel, but grew up inLaboe. After graduation in 1974 inPreetz, she began studying special education and biology at theUniversity of Hamburg, which she broke off in 1976. Instead, she completed an apprenticeship as a goldsmith inPlön, which she finished in 1980 with a journeyman's certificate.[2]
Since 1983 Hagedorn has been a member of the SPD. From 1991 to 2003, she was a member of the SPD district executiveOstholstein, from 1993 as deputy district chairwoman. From 2003 to 2019 she was a member of the state executive committee of the SPD inSchleswig-Holstein. From 2007 to 2019 she served as deputy state chairwoman of the SPD in Schleswig-Holstein, under the leadership of chairmanRalf Stegner.[2]
From 1986 to 2003 Hagedorn was a member of the municipal council of her place of residence,Kasseedorf, where she also served as a deputy mayor (1994–1997) and mayor (1997–2003).[2]
Since the2002 national elections Hagedorn has been a member of the German Bundestag. From 2002 until 2018, she served on the Budget Committee,[2] where she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur on the budgets of theFederal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (2002-2005); theFederal Ministry of the Interior (2005-2009); theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (2009-2013); and theFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (2013-2017).
Throughout that period, Hagedorn also served on the Audit Committee, which she chaired from 2013 until 2017. Both from 2005 to 2009 and from 2013 to 2017, she was 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, Hagedorn is a member of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with the Nordic States. Within her parliamentary group, she has been serving as on the working groups on budgetary policies since 2009 and for municipal policies since 2005. She also belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[3]
In 2015, Hagedorn was one of the victims of a large-scalecyberattack on the German Parliament’s computer network.[4]
In the2017 federal elections, Hagedorn led her party’s list for Schleswig-Holstein.[5] In Chancellor Angela Merkel’sfourth cabinet, she joined the federal government as one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries – alongside Christine Lambrecht (2018-2019), laterSarah Ryglewski (2019–2021) – serving under Finance Minister Olaf Scholz. In this capacity, she participated in the fifth German-Indian government consultations inDelhi in November 2019.
Following the2021 elections, Hagedorn joined the Budget Committee again, where she has since been serving as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on theannual budget of theFederal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (2021–2025), theFederal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (since 2025), theOffice of the Federal President (since 2025) as well as on the Special Climate and Transformation Fund (since 2025).[6] In addition to her committee assignments, she is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Baltic States.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2025 German elections, Hagedorn was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on public finances, led byMathias Middelberg,Florian Oßner andDennis Rohde.[7]
Hagedorn is divorced and has three sons.
