Susanna Karawanskij | |
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| Minister of Infrastructure and Agriculture | |
| Assumed office September 9, 2021 | |
| President ofPeople's Solidarity | |
| Assumed office October, 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1980-05-07)May 7, 1980 (age 45) |
| Party | The Left |
| Education | University of Leipzig |
| Occupation | Politician |
Susanna Karawanskij (born in May 7, 1980, inLeipzig,East Germany) is aGerman politician of the partyThe Left and since September 9, 2021 Minister of Infrastructure and Agriculture in Thuringia. Previously, she was State Secretary in the same ministry from March 4, 2020. She has also been president ofPeople's Solidarity since October 2020. Prior to that, she was Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family in the state of Brandenburg from 2018 to 2019.
Shestudied political andcultural sciences at theUniversity of Leipzig and subsequently worked as aresearch assistant at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Leipzig. On December 11, 2015, she was elected to the board of the German Children's Fund.[1] She is married to the chairman of the Left Party ofSaxony, Stefan Hartmann.[2]
Susanna Karawanskij has been a member of Die Linke party since 2008. She has been a member of the state executive committee of Die Linke Sachsen since 2009. Since 2012, she has beenchairwoman of her party's district association in the district ofNorth Saxony. In the2013 federal election, she was a candidate in theconstituency of North Saxony and was number 3 on the state list of the Left Party in Saxony. She succeeded in entering theBundestag via the state list. She was one of seven parliamentary executives of the Left Party in theGerman Bundestag. Since September 19, 2016, Karawanskij has been her parliamentary group's representative for eastern Germany. In the2017 Bundestag election, she ran again in theconstituency of North Saxony and in 7th place on the Left Party's state list for Saxony, but did not win another mandate.
On September 19, 2018, Karawanskij was sworn in as Brandenburg Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family Affairs in theWoidke II cabinet, succeedingDiana Golze, who had resigned from her post in the wake of the Lunapharm scandal involving inadequate cancer drugs.[3] On November 20, 2019, she left her government post with the formation of theWoidke III cabinet.[4][5]
On March 4, 2020, she was appointed State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture in theRamelow II cabinet,[6] responsible for housing, construction, and transportation.
On September 9, 2021, she took over from Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff as minister in that ministry.[7]
