Christoph Matschie | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2021 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1990–2004 | |
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| Born | (1961-07-15)15 July 1961 (age 64) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Party | Social Democratic Party (SPD) |
| Children | 2 |
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Christoph Matschie (born 15 July 1961 inMühlhausen) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as DeputyMinister-President ofThuringia between 2009 and 2014. He was also a member of theBundestag from 1999 to 2004 and from 2017 to 2021.
Matschie grew up inEast Germany. From 1984 to 1989 he studiedTheology at theUniversity of Rostock and theUniversity of Jena and earned adiploma.
Matschie joined the newly foundedSocial Democratic Party of East Germany in October 1989. Following theGerman reunification Matschie became a member of the SPD.
Matschie was a member of theBundestag from 1990 to 2004. During thelegislative period from 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the federal executive board of his party's group in the Bundestag. From 1998 until 2002, he chaired the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Following the2002 elections, he joined thegovernment ofChancellorGerhard Schröder as Parliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry for Education and Research, under the leadership of MinisterEdelgard Bulmahn.
Matschie served as chairman of the SPD in Thuringia from 1999 until 2014. He co-chaired the SPD’s national conventions inBochum (2003),[1] Berlin (2004)[2] andHamburg (2007).[3]
Matschie was his party's candidate for Minister-President at theState elections of 2004 and2009. The SPD remained third strongest party in the state, but managed to form acoalition government with theChristian Democratic Union in 2009. Matschie became State Minister for Education, Youth and Sport as well as Deputy Minister-President in the government of Minister-PresidentChristine Lieberknecht.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition ofChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Matschie was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led byJohanna Wanka andDoris Ahnen.
In theLandtag of Thuringia, Matschie later served on the Budget and Finance Committee.
Matschie was re-elected to the Bundestag in the2017 elections. He served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on the United Nations.
In September 2020, Matschie announced that he would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]
From 1997 until 2010, Matschie was married toEthiopian-born political scientist and aid workerMitslal Kifleyesus. They have two children.[7]
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