Leni Breymaier | |
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.jpg) Breymaier in 2021 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
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| Born | (1960-04-26)26 April 1960 (age 65) |
| Political party |  German:Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
Leni Breymaier (born 26 April 1960)[1] is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Breymaier was born in 1960 inUlm and became an SPD member in 1982.[1]
From 2016 until 2018, Breymaier served as chairwoman of the SPD in the federal state ofBaden-Württemberg, succeedingNils Schmid.[2]
Breymaier has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2017 elections, elected on the SPD party list forBaden-Württemberg.[1] In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the elections, she was part of the working group on municipalities and rural areas, led byReiner Haseloff,Kurt Gribl andMichael Groschek.
Breymaier has since been serving on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, where she is her parliamentary group'srapporteur ondemographic transition, pensions, andforced prostitution.[1] In 2019, she initiated a cross-party working group in support of a ban onprostitution.[3]
Since the 2021 elections, Breymaier has been serving as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth.[4] Since 2022, she has also been serving on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely theFederal Court of Justice (BGH), theFederal Administrative Court (BVerwG), theFederal Fiscal Court (BFH), theFederal Labour Court (BAG), and theFederal Social Court (BSG).[5] That same year, she joined the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired byJohannes Fechner andNina Warken.[6]
In addition to her committee assignments, Breymaier is a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the SPD parliamentary group, she belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[7]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government between the SPD, theGreen Party andFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Breymaier was part of her party's delegation in the working group on equality, co-chaired by Petra Köpping,Ricarda Lang and Herbert Mertin.[8]In 2024, Breymaier announced, that she isn't seeking re-election for Bundestag.[9]
Since 1986, Breymaier has been living inEislingen.
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