Caren Marks | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Caren Marks in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2002–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1963-09-25)25 September 1963 (age 62) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Leibniz University Hannover |
Caren Marks (born 25 September 1963) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofLower Saxony from 2002 until 2021.[1] Since 2013, she has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in the government ofChancellorAngela Merkel.
She representedHannover-Land I from 2002 to 2013.
Marks first became a member of the Bundestag in the2002 German federal election.[2] She is Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[3]
In the negotiations to form afourthcoalition government under Merkel's leadership following the2017 federal elections, Marks was part of the working group on families, women, seniors and youth, led byAnnette Widmann-Mauz,Angelika Niebler andKatarina Barley.
In July 2019, Marks announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]
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