Nina Scheer | |
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 Scheer in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | (1971-09-11)11 September 1971 (age 54) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | SPD |
| Children | 1 |
Nina Scheer (born 11 September 1971) is a German lawyer and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been a member of theBundestag since 2013. Her political interests includeenergy policy andclimate change. In 2019, Scheer was an unsuccessful candidate in the2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, in a team withKarl Lauterbach. Her father wasHermann Scheer, also a SPD Bundestag member.
Scheer was born inBerlin. From 1991 to 1996 she studied music with a specialization in theviolin at theFolkwang University of the Arts inEssen, then studiedlaw at theUniversity of Bonn. In 2008 she obtained a doctorate inpolitical science at theUniversity of Leipzig.[1]
Scheer has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2013 elections, standing in the electoral districtHerzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd, which encompasses theadministrative districtDuchy of Lauenburg and parts ofStormarn. Though she lost toNorbert Brackmann in both elections, she entered parliament through theSPD'sparty list.
In parliament, Scheer served on the Committee on the Economic Affairs and Energy from 2014 until 2017 before moving to the Committee on the Environment, Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as well as to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection in 2018. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur onnuclear energy. In addition, she has been a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development since 2018. Since the2021 elections, Scheer has been serving as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for climate protection and energy.[2] She also joined the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy.[3]
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Scheer belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[4]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition ofChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the 2013 elections, Scheer was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on energy policy, led byPeter Altmaier andHannelore Kraft.[5]
Jointly withKarl Lauterbach, Scheer was a candidate in the2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, with an emphasis oncombating climate change.[6] The duo was eliminated in the first round of voting with 14.6% of the vote.[7]
In the2025 German federal election, Scheer won 23.4% of thefirst votes in the election butlost her constituency toHenri Schmidt from the CDU who won 32.7% of thefirst votes in the election.[8]
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