Katja Mast | |
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 Mast in 2020 | |
| Chief Whip of theSPD Group in theBundestag | |
| In office 9 December 2021 – 7 May 2025 | |
| Leader | Rolf Mützenich |
| Preceded by | Carsten Schneider |
| Succeeded by | Dirk Wiese |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 18 September 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-02-04)4 February 1971 (age 54) |
| Political party | SPD (since 1993) |
| Alma mater | University of Heidelberg |
Katja Mast (born 4 February 1971) is a German politician of theSPD who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg since 2005.[1]
In addition to her work in parliament, Mast has been serving as aParliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in thegovernment ofChancellorFriedrich Merz since 2025.[2]
Before entering politics, Mast worked inhuman resources atDeutsche Bahn from 2003 to 2005.[3]
Mast joined the SPD in 1993.[4]
Mast became a member of the Bundestag in the2005 German federal election, representing thePforzheim district.[5] From 2005 to 2017, she served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs. From 2017 until 2021, she served as one of her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of successive chairsAndrea Nahles (2017–2019) andRolf Mützenich (2019–2021).[6]
From 2022 to 2025, Mast was the group'schief whip[7] and – in this capacity – served on the Mediation Committee[8] as well as the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany.[9][10]
In addition to her parliamentary work, Mast served as secretary general of the SPD inBaden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2016, under the leadership of chairmanNils Schmid.[11]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democrats (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Mast was part of her party's delegation in the working group onsocial policy, co-chaired byDagmar Schmidt,Sven Lehmann andJohannes Vogel.[12]
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