Dagmar Ziegler | |
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_01.jpg) Dagmar Ziegler in 2020 | |
| Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the SPD-faction) | |
| In office 26 November 2020 – 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Oppermann |
| Succeeded by | Aydan Özoğuz |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1960-09-28)28 September 1960 (age 65) |
| Political party | SPD |
Dagmar Ziegler (born 28 September 1960) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBrandenburg from 2009 until 2021.[1]
From 1994 until 2009, Ziegler was a member of theState Parliament of Brandenburg. In the government of Minister-PresidentMatthias Platzeck, she served as State Minister of Finance (2000-2004) and State Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Families (2004-2009).
Ziegler became a member of the Bundestag after the2009 German federal election.[2] From 2009 until 2013, she wasMember of the Bundestag FORPrignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – Havelland I in north-westernBrandenburg State, and served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairmanFrank-Walter Steinmeier.
She lost herconstituency in2013 toSebastian Steineke from theCDU, but was elected on the state list.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Ziegler was part of her party's delegation in the working group on families, women and equality, led byAnnette Widmann-Mauz andManuela Schwesig.
From 2014, Ziegler served on the parliament’sCouncil of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. In 2018, she also joined the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.[3]
Ziegler contested the same constituency in2017, but failed. She returned to the Bundestag on the list.
In December 2019, Ziegler announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4] In her final year in parliament, she serves as the parliament's vice-president, following the sudden death ofThomas Oppermann.
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