Wiebke Esdar | |
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 Esdar 2021 | |
| Member of theBundestag forBielefeld – Gütersloh II | |
| Assumed office 24 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Christina Kampmann |
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| Born | (1984-02-11)11 February 1984 (age 41) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Bielefeld |
Wiebke Esdar (born 11 February 1984) is a German psychologist and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD). She has been a member of theBundestag since the2017 election, when she won the constituency ofBielefeld – Gütersloh II with 33.2% of the votes.[1]
Esdar was born in Bielefeld. She studiedpsychology,social sciences andhistory at theUniversity of Bielefeld and received her PhD degree in psychology in 2015.
Esdar has been a member of the SPD since 2005 and became the chairwoman of the SPD in Bielefeld in 2016.[2]
Esdar has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2017 elections, representing Bielefeld andGütersloh. In parliament, served on the Finance Committee[3] and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment from 2018 to 2021. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur onuniversities. Since 2021, she has been part of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee.[4] In 2022, she also joined the parliamentary body charged with overseeing a 100 billion euro special fund to strengthen Germany’sarmed forces.
Within the SPD parliamentary group, Esdar belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement; she has been co-chairing the group since 2022, alongsideMatthias Miersch andSönke Rix.[5] Since 2023, she has been leading the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians fromNorth Rhine-Westphalia, the largest delegation within the party’s parliamentary group, alongsideDirk Wiese.[6]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democrats (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Esdar was part of her party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired byThomas Losse-Müller,Katharina Fegebank andLydia Hüskens.[7]
Since 2025, Esdar has been serving as deputy chair of her parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairmanMatthias Miersch. In this capacity, she oversees the group’s legislative activities on thenational budget, research, media and cultural affairs.[8]
Esdar is married to fellow SPD politician Veith Lemmen. They have a son.[13]
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