Ute Vogt | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2021 | |
| In office 1994–2005 | |
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| Born | (1964-10-03)3 October 1964 (age 60) Heidelberg,West Germany (nowGermany) |
| Political party |  German:Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
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Ute Vogt (born 3 October 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from 1994 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021. Since 2021, she has been serving as president of theGerman Life Saving Association (DLRG).[1]
Vogt was born in 1964 inHeidelberg. She studied atHeidelberg University and at theGerman University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, and became alawyer.[2]
Vogt joined theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) in 1984 and became a city councillor inWiesloch from 1989 until 1994.
Vogt was firstelected to theBundestag in 1994, representingPforzheim.[2] In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs (1994-2001)[3] and the Committee on Postal Services and Telecommunications (1998-2001). From 1999 until 2001, she also served on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely theFederal Court of Justice (BGH), theFederal Administrative Court (BVerwG), theFederal Fiscal Court (BFH), theFederal Labour Court (BAG), and theFederal Social Court (BSG). In 2000, she became the first woman to chair the Committee on Internal Affairs.[4]
On the state level, Vogt was elected chairwoman of the SPD inBaden-Württemberg in 1999, leading the party’s campaign for the2001 state elections and – unsuccessfully – attempting to unseat incumbent Minister-PresidentErwin Teufel.
From 2001 until2005 elections, Vogt served alongside Fritz Rudolf Körper as Parliamentary State Secretary in theFederal Ministry of the Interior under ministerOtto Schily in thegovernment ofChancellorGerhard Schröder.
Also on the national level, Vogt was one of the deputy chairs of the SPD from 2003[5] until 2007,[6] under the leadership of successive chairmen Schröder (2003-2004),Franz Müntefering (2004-2005),Matthias Platzeck (2005-2006) andKurt Beck (2006-2007).
When the Schröder government was voted out of office in 2005, Vogt returned to state politics and became her party’s candidate to challenge Minister-PresidentGünther Oettinger in Baden-Württemberg’s2006 elections. From 2006 until 2008, she chaired her parliamentary group in theLandtag of Baden-Württemberg.[7] She resigned as the party’s chairwoman in the state after disappointing results in the2009 German federal election[8][9] and was replaced byNils Schmid.
Vogt returned to theBundestag in the2009 elections, this time representingStuttgart. In parliament, she joined the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as well as a parliamentary inquiry into theGorleben salt dome, a controversial proposeddeep geological repository forradioactive waste.[10][11]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Vogt led the SPD delegation in the working group on the environment and agriculture; her co-chair from the Christian Democrats wasKatherina Reiche. She subsequently served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairmanThomas Oppermann from 2013 until 2017. In this capacity, she was one of the members of the country's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste from 2014 to 2016, chaired by Ursula Heinen-Esser andMichael Müller..[12] From 2015 until 2016, she was part of a government-appointed commission tasked with recommending how to safeguard the funding of fulfilling Germany'sexit from nuclear energy, under the leadership of co-chairsOle von Beust,Matthias Platzeck andJürgen Trittin.[13][14]
Vogt later served as a member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development (2018–2019) and again of the Committee on Internal Affairs (2019–2021). In October 2020, she announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[15]
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