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| Minister of State in theChancellery Coordinator of Federal-State Relations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 December 2021 – 6 May 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Hendrik Hoppenstedt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Michael Meister | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary State Secretary in theMinistry of Finance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 2 September 2019 – 8 December 2021 Serving with Bettina Hagedorn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister | Olaf Scholz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Christine Lambrecht | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Florian Toncar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1983-01-31)31 January 1983 (age 42) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Social Democratic Party(2001–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Bremen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Janina Ryglewski (born 31 January 1983) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBremen from 2015 to 2025.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Ryglewski served as Parliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Finance in thegovernment ofChancellorAngela Merkel (2019–2021)[1] and asMinister of State for Federal-State Relations in thegovernment ofChancellorOlaf Scholz (2021–2025).[2]
Born inKöln,North Rhine-Westphalia,[3] Ryglewski studiedpolitical science at theUniversity of Bremen from 2002 until 2009.
Since 2010, Ryglewski has been the deputy chair of the SPD in Bremen.
From 2011 to 2015, Ryglewski served as a member of theState Parliament of Bremen. She was her parliamentary group’s spokesperson on consumer protection issues.
AfterCarsten Sieling was elected mayor of Bremen in July 2015, Ryglewski took his seat as a member of the Bundestag, representing theBremen I district. In parliament, she served on the Finance Committee (2015-2019), the Committee on Petitions (2015-2017), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018-2019) and the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs (2018-2019). Within the SPD parliamentary group, she belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[4][5]
In the negotiations to form afourthcoalition government under Merkel's leadership following the2017 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byThomas de Maizière,Stephan Mayer andHeiko Maas. From 2018 until 2019, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for consumer protections issues.
In 2019, Ryglewski succeededChristine Lambrecht as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, under the leadership of ministerOlaf Scholz.[6][7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and thenational budget, co-chaired byDoris Ahnen,Lisa Paus andChristian Dürr.[8]
In July 2024, Ryglewski announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[9]
