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Klara Geywitz | |
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.png) Geywitz in 2020 | |
| Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building | |
| Assumed office 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Horst Seehofer(as Minister of the Interior, Building and Community) |
| Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2019 | |
| Leader | Saskia Esken Lars Klingbeil |
| Preceded by | Natascha Kohnen |
| General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party ofBrandenburg | |
| In office 2 September 2013 – 1 November 2017 | |
| Leader | Dietmar Woidke |
| Preceded by | Klaus Ness |
| Succeeded by | Erik Stohn |
| Member of the Landtag of Brandenburg forPotsdam I | |
| In office 13 October 2004 – 25 September 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Herbert Knoblich |
| Succeeded by | Marie Schäffer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1976-02-18)18 February 1976 (age 49) Potsdam,Bezirk Potsdam,East Germany(now Germany) |
| Political party | SPD (since 1992) |
| Spouse | Ulrich Deupmann |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Potsdam |
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Klara Geywitz (German pronunciation:[ˈklaːʁaˈɡaɪvɪts]; born 18 February 1976) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) serving asFederal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in theScholz cabinet since 2021.[1] She served as member of theLandtag of Brandenburg from 2004 until 2019, and is a Deputy Leader of theSPD since 2019.[2]
Klara Geywitz was born 1976 inPotsdam in the formerGerman Democratic Republic. She studiedpolitical science at theUniversity of Potsdam[when?]. In 1992, Geywitz became a member of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany.[citation needed]
From 2004 until 2019, Geywitz was a member of theLandtag of Brandenburg.[3] Among other committee assignments, she served on the Budget Committee from 2009 until 2014. She was always elected inFirst-past-the-post voting for her electoral district in Potsdam,[4] until she was defeated in the2019 state election byGreens candidate Marie Schäffer.
From 2008 until 2013, Geywitz served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Brandenburg, under the leadership of its chairmanMatthias Platzeck.[5] From 2013 until 2017, she was the party's Secretary General, this time under chairmanDietmar Woidke.[5]
In the negotiations to form afourth cabinet underChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 elections, Geywitz was part of her party's delegation.[citation needed]
In the2019 SPD leadership election, Geywitz announced that she would run as co-chair, together with incumbent Vice ChancellorOlaf Scholz.[6] They were representative of the party establishment.[7] Competing against five other candidate pairs, they narrowly won the first voting round,[8] gaining 22 per cent of the vote.[9] In the final voting round, she and Scholz were defeated winning 45 per cent of the party base, whileSaskia Esken andNorbert Walter-Borjans won with 53 per cent of the vote,[2] drawing support from the youth of the organisation.[10]
At a SPD national convention in 2019, Geywitz was later elected as one of the five deputies of the party's co-chairs Esken and Walter-Borjans.[11] in December 2021, she was re-elected at the SPD national convention .[12]
Since 2020, Geywitz has been working for the BrandenburgCourt of Audit.[13]
On 6 December 2021, Geywitz was announced asFederal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in theScholz cabinet.[14]
In October 2023, Geywitz participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz andPresidentEmmanuel Macron.[15][16]
In 2020, followingThomas Oppermann’s death, Geywitz endorsedDagmar Ziegler as his successor in the office ofVice-President of the German Bundestag.[21]
Geywitz is married and has three children.[5]
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