Dietmar Nietan | |
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 Dietmar Nietan in 2013 | |
| Treasurer of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 26 January 2014 | |
| Leader | Sigmar Gabriel Martin Schulz Andrea Nahles Norbert Walter-Borjans Saskia Esken Lars Klingbeil |
| Preceded by | Barbara Hendricks |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2005–2025 | |
| In office 1998–2002 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1964-05-25)25 May 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
Dietmar Heinrich Nietan (born 25 May 1964) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2005 to 2025.[1]
In addition to his parliamentary work, Nietan served as Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation at theFederal Foreign Office in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2022 to 2025.[2][3]
In 2014, Nietan became the SPD'streasurer, making him part of the party's national leadership under current co-chairsSaskia Esken andLars Klingbeil.
Nietan became a member of the Bundestag for the second time in the2017 German federal election.[4] He was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs;[5] in this capacity, he served as his parliamentary group'srapporteur on theEuropean Union'sCommon Foreign and Security Policy and relations toTurkey.[6] He also served on the Committee on European Affairs from 1998 until 2005 and from 2009 until 2013.
In addition to his committee assignments, Nietan was part of the German-Polish Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2005 until 2009, he chaired the German Parliamentary Friendship Group withBelgium andLuxembourg.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Nietan belonged to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[7]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Nietan was part of the working group on energy, climate protection and the environment, led byArmin Laschet,Georg Nüßlein andBarbara Hendricks.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Nietan was part of his party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired byHeiko Maas,Omid Nouripour andAlexander Graf Lambsdorff.[8]
In April 2024, Nietan announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[9]
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