Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter | |
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 Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter atUnited Nations (2016) | |
| Parliamentary State Secretary forInterior and Community | |
| Assumed office 8 Dezember 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Minister | Nancy Faeser |
| Parliamentary State Secretary forEnvironment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety | |
| In office 17 December 2013 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Minister | Barbara Hendricks andSvenja Schulze |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1962-10-13)13 October 1962 (age 63) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Website | www |
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (born 13 October 1962) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who serves as a member of the GermanBundestag, the German federal parliament.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was Parliamentary State Secretary inChancellorAngela Merkel's third (from 2013) and fourth (from 2018)cabinet. Since December 2021, has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary inChancellorOlaf Scholz's first cabinet.
Schwarzelühr-Sutter was born on 13 October 1962 inWaldshut inBaden-Württemberg.[1][2] She studiedBusiness Administration at theUniversity of Freiburg andETH Zurich, graduating in 1989.[3]
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter joined theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) in 1994 and has been a member of the executive board of the SPD party organization forWaldshut since 1995. Since 2001 she has been the chairwoman of the SPD constituency party for the district of Waldshut. She was a member of themunicipal council of her home town ofLauchringen from 1999 to the end of 2013. Since 2004 she has also been a member of thedistrict council of the rural district ofWaldshut.[4][5]
Since September 2007 she has been a member of the SPD executive board in the state ofBaden-Württemberg,[1] and from 2008 to 2009 she headed the national SPD Executive Committee's working group on sustainable mobility.[5]
From 1997 to 2005 Schwarzelühr-Sutter worked as an advisor and communications coordinator/strategist forKarin Rehbock-Zureich [de], a member of theBundestag, the German federal parliament.[2]
In theGerman federal election of 2005, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was elected to theBundestag as aparty list candidate. In parliament, she has since served on the Committee on Transport (2005-2009), the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (2010-2012), and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology (2012-2013).
By 2007, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was reportedly being groomed by the SPD as a future leader.[6] In the2009 federal elections, she was placed at number 16 on the party list and narrowly missed re-election to theBundestag[7][8] but was automatically re-elected in 2010 as designated successor following the death ofHermann Scheer.[9]
Schwarzelühr-Sutter was re-elected in the2013 federal election.[10] In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of theChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the elections, she was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on economic policy, led byIlse Aigner andHubertus Heil.
On 17 December 2013, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety inMerkel's third cabinet.[11][12] In this capacity, she has represented successive ministersBarbara Hendricks (2013–2018) andSvenja Schulze (since 2018) in political and parliamentary affairs, particularly in her designated special areas ofclimate change mitigation,nuclear reactor safety,conservation, and the environment and health.[a] She has led or been a member of German delegations on various topics, including the Small Islands Development Conference forSmall Island Developing States (SIDS 2014), the conference of the treaty states of theBiodiversity Convention (UN-CBD COP-12),[14] and negotiations on the2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.[15][16][17] She represents Germany at the High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF) held annually at the United Nations in New York City.
In addition, Schwarzelühr-Sutter served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2011 until 2017.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under Merkel’s leadership following the2017 federal elections, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was part of the working group on energy, climate protection and the environment, led by Hendricks,Armin Laschet andGeorg Nüßlein.
Following the2021 state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was part of her party's delegation in negotiations withMinister-PresidentWinfried Kretschmann'sAlliance '90/Greens on a potentialcoalition government.[18]
In July 2015, following irregularities involving the reactor pressure vessel at theBeznau Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, near the German border, and near her parliamentary constituency, Schwarzelühr-Sutter demanded the final shutdown of the power plant, which is the oldest still operating nuclear power station in the world, having gone on line in 1964.[26]
In January 2016, in response to an incident at theLeibstadt Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland, near the German border, and near her parliamentary constituency, Schwarzelühr-Sutter criticized the operator's attitudes to safety.[27]
Schwarzelühr-Sutter is married and has two children.[1]
Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats ist die Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (BMUB)
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