Gabriela Heinrich | |
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| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | (1963-04-18)18 April 1963 (age 62) |
| Political party | SPD |
Gabriela Heinrich (born 18 April 1963) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria since 2013.[1]
Heinrich first became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[2] In parliament, she has served on theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (2014-2019, since 2025) and the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development (2014-2018).[3]
In addition to her role in parliament, Heinrich has been serving as member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2014. On the Assembly, she has been a member of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 2014) and the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (2015-2018).[4] Since 2019, she has also been part of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[5] Since 2022, she has been chairing the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Within her parliamentary group, Heinrich served as one of seven deputies of chairmanRolf Mützenich from 2019 to 2025.[6] She belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement within the group.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Heinrich was part of her 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 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, she was again part of the SPD delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense, development cooperation and human rights, this time led byJohann Wadephul,Florian Hahn andSvenja Schulze.[9]
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