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Carola Reimann | |
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| Member of theBundestag forBraunschweig | |
| In office 2002–2017 | |
| Preceded by | Leyla Onur |
| Succeeded by | Marja-Liisa Völlers |
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| Born | (1967-08-25)25 August 1967 (age 58) |
| Political party | Social Democratic |
Carola Reimann (born 25 August 1967) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as State Minister for Social Affairs, Health, and Equality in the cabinet ofMinister-PresidentStephan Weil ofLower Saxony from 2017 to 2021. She previously representedBraunschweig in theBundestag from2002 until 2017.[1]
Reimann has a doctorate inbiotechnology[2] fromTechnical University of Braunschweig.
In parliament, Reimann was a member of the Committee on Health (2000–2013) and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2000–2002). She served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on health policy from 2005 until 2009.[3]
From 2008 until 2017, Reimann was part of the leadership team of the SPD in Lower Saxony, under successive chairsGarrelt Duin (2007–2010),Olaf Lies (2010–2012) and Stephan Weil (2012–2017). Ahead of the2009 elections, German foreign ministerFrank-Walter Steinmeier included her in hisshadow cabinet of 10 women and eight men for the Social Democrats' campaign to unseatChancellorAngela Merkel.[4][5]
Following the 2009 elections, Reimann chaired the Committee on Health from 2009 to 2013.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition ofChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Reimann was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on health policy, led byJens Spahn andKarl Lauterbach. From 2013, she served as deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairThomas Oppermann. During her time in office, she notably led a cross-party initiative in 2015 for legislation onassisted suicide meant to absolve doctors from prosecution, alongsidePeter Hintze and Lauterbach.[6]
In November 2017, Reimann resigned from parliament to accept her appointment as State Minister for Social Affairs, Health, and Equality in the cabinet ofMinister-PresidentStephan Weil ofLower Saxony.[7] In this capacity, she was also one of the state's representatives on theBundesrat.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Reimann was again part of the working group on health policy, this time led byHermann Gröhe,Georg Nüßlein andMalu Dreyer.
In March 2021, Reimann resigned from her office, citing health reasons.[8]
Since 2021, Reimann has been working as chair of German health insurance AOK.[9]
