Dr. Sabine Sütterlin-Waack | |
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| Schleswig-Holstein Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports | |
| Assumed office 2020 | |
| Until 30 June 2022: Ministry of the Interior, Rural Areas, Integration and Equality | |
| Preceded by | Hans-Joachim Grote |
| Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Justice, Europe, Consumer Protection and Gender Equality | |
| In office 28.06.2017–29.04.2020 | |
| Preceded by | Anke Spoorendonk |
| Succeeded by | Claus Christian Claussen |
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| Born | Schwarz (1958-02-15)15 February 1958 (age 67) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
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| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (born 15 February 1958, inReinbek asSabine Schwarz) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in the State ofSchleswig-Holstein.
Sabine Sütterlin-Waack comes from a Schleswig-Holstein politician family. Her father was the longtime state ministerHenning Schwarz (1928-1993), who was also acting Minister-President in 1987/88; her grandfather Werner Schwarz (1900-1982) was a Member of Parliament and from 1959 to 1965 Federal Minister of Agriculture. She is married for the second time and has two sons from her first marriage.
Due to her parents moving frequently, Sütterlin-Waack attended schools inAhrensburg andPreetz, before she graduated in 1977 from theEmil-von-Behring-Gymnasium inGroßhansdorf. From 1977 to 1979 she trained as a retail clerk at the thenKarstadt AG, then studied law at theUniversity of Göttingen and at theUniversity of Lausanne. She then attendedChristian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1986 and completed the firstStaatsexamen (state examination). She completed the second Staatsexamen at the Judicial Examination Office inHamburg in 1989. In 1990 she wrote her doctoral thesis on "The Day of German Unity Through the Ages."
From 1990 to 1993 Sütterlin-Waack worked as a research assistant to the CDU parliamentary group inHesse. In 1994 she joined a law firm inSchleswig as a lawyer.
Sütterlin-Waack joined the CDU in 1976. From 1992 to 1994 she worked as deputy local chairman of the CDU inBudenheim(Rhineland-Palatinate) and, after her move to Schleswig-Holstein in 2004, became deputy chairman of the CDU local associationSchuby/Lürschau. Since 2009, she is chairwoman of the CDU-AmtsverbandArensharde. At the state party convention of the CDU on 19 November 2016, Sütterlin-Waack was elected deputy state chairman of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein.[1]
From 1994 to 2002, Sütterlin-Waack also volunteered for the school parish council of the elementary and secondary school Schuby.
In the municipal elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2003, Sütterlin-Waack was elected as a community representative in Lürschau and vice-mayor there. As such she was a member of the Bureau of theAmt Schuby and chairwoman of the local School and Culture Committee. In the Schleswig-Holstein local elections of 2008, she was elected in the district council ofSchleswig-Flensburg. From 2009 to 2013, she was Deputy CDU Parliamentary Group Leader and, from 2011 to 2013, Chairwoman of the Main Committee. In September 2013, she was elected to the Bundestag and resigned from the municipal offices that she had been re-elected to in May of the same year.
From 2011 until her entry into the Bundestag, Sütterlin-Waack was also honorary mayor of the municipality of Lüschau.
Sütterlin-Waack was nominated as a candidate for thefederal elections on 5 February 2013 after the original candidate,Jost de Jager,[2] had resigned.[3] She was nominated with 224 out of 231 votes.[4]
In the 2013 general election, Sütterlin-Waack won the direct mandate with 42.5 percent of the direct votes and thus moved into the 18th Bundestag. She was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection, where she served as her parliamentary group’srapporteur onfamily law.
In November 2016, Sütterlin-Waack was elected one of the four deputy state chairmen of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein.[5] In November 2018 she no longer took up this post;[6] she was succeeded by State Minister of EducationKarin Prien.[7]
After the victory of the CDU in the2017 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Sütterlin-Waack was appointed Minister of Justice, Europe, Consumer Protection and Gender Equality in thegovernment ofMinister-PresidentDaniel Günther on 28 June 2017 and resigned from the Bundestag. Her successor there was Thomas Jepsen.[8]
In 2020, Sütterlin-Waack was appointed State Minister of the Interior, Rural Areas, and Integration. After assuming office, the Ministries name was changed to "Ministry of the Interior, Rural Areas, Integration and Equality".[9]
As one of the state’s representatives at theBundesrat, Sütterlin-Waack is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs; the Committee on European Affairs; the Committee on Women and Youth; and the Committee on Agricultural Policy and Consumer Protection. She is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and theRussian Federation Council.
Sütterlin-Waack was nominated by her party as delegate to theFederal Convention for the purpose of electing thePresident of Germany in2022.[10]
Sütterlin-Waack joined Daniel Günther's second cabinet on 29 June 2022 as Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports.[11]
In June 2017, Sütterlin-Waack voted against her parliamentary group’s majority and in favour of Germany’s introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[12]
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