Manuela Rottmann | |
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 Manuela Rottmann in 2019 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2024 | |
| Succeeded by | Uwe Kekeritz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-05-09)9 May 1972 (age 53) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 1 |
Manuela Rottmann (born 9 May 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as the party's deputy chair since 2024.[1][2] She previously was a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria from 2017 to 2024.[3]
In addition to her parliamentary work, Rottmann served asParliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in thecoalition government ofChancellorOlaf Scholz from 2021 to 2022.[4]
The daughter of a police officer, Rottmann attended elementary school in Eßleben and grammar schools inSchweinfurt,Würzburg andHammelburg. She passed her Abitur in 1991 at the Frobenius-Gymnasium in Hammelburg.
From 1991 to 1998 Rotttmann studied political science, sociology, economics and law at theUniversity of Würzburg,Goethe University Frankfurt andAix-Marseille University. In 1998 she completed her studies with the First State Examination in Law in Frankfurt am Main. From 1998 to 2004 Rottmann was a research assistant at the Institute for Public Law at Goethe University. In 2004 she passed the Second State Examination in Law in Hesse. In 2006 she received her doctorate in law in Frankfurt with a thesis supervised by Georg Hermes.
From 2004 to 2006 Rottmann was a research assistant at theGerman Institute of Urban Affairs (DIFU) in Berlin. From 2012 to March 2017 she worked as legal advisor forDB Netz in Frankfurt.
In the2002 elections, Rottmann unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in theFrankfurt am Main I electoral district. She was elected to the city council, and from 2006 to 2012 she was the head of department for health and environment.[5]
Rottmann became a member of the Bundestag in the2017 German federal election, representing theBad Kissingen district.[6] In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection from 2017 until 2021.[7]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Rottmann was part of her party's delegation in the working group onhomeland security, civil rights and consumer protection, co-chaired byChristine Lambrecht,Konstantin von Notz andWolfgang Kubicki.[8]
In November 2022 Rottmann was named as the Green candidate for the 2023 Frankfurt mayoral election.[5] After she lost the elections in March 2023, she returned to her work in parliament and became a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs again.[9]
In May 2024, Rottmann announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[10] She resigned in 2024 and was replaced byUwe Kekeritz.[11]
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