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Yasmin Fahimi | |
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| President ofDGB | |
| Assumed office 9 May 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Reiner Hoffmann [de] |
| State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs | |
| In office 2017 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Minister | Andrea Nahles |
| Member of theBundestag forStadt Hannover II | |
| In office 24 September 2017 – May 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Edelgard Bulmahn |
| Succeeded by | Boris Pistorius (2025) |
| General Secretary of theSocial Democratic Party | |
| In office 26 January 2014 – 11 December 2015 | |
| Leader | Sigmar Gabriel |
| Preceded by | Andrea Nahles |
| Succeeded by | Katarina Barley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1967-12-25)25 December 1967 (age 57) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | Leibniz University Hannover |
Yasmin Fahimi (born 25 December 1967) is a German trade unionist and politician who has been chairing theGerman Trade Union Confederation (DGB) since 2022.[1]
From 2017 to 2022, Fahimi served as a member of the GermanBundestag. From January 2014 to December 2015 she was the general secretary of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD).[2][3]
Fahimi was born inHanover. HerIranian father died in a traffic collision before she was born; her mother is German. Her mother's family comes from East Prussia and fled during World War II. Fahimi has one older brother who was born in Tehran. Fahimi's mother, who was employed at the Ministry of Justice, raised the children alone. She studiedchemistry at theUniversity of Hanover from 1989 to 1998.[4]
Between 1998 and 2014, Fahimi worked in various capacities at theIG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie. From 2012, she also served as founder and board member of the Innovationsforum Energiewende, a group convening unions and companies from the energy sector and energy-intensive industries.
Fahimi has been a member of the Social Democratic Party since 1984. She was a member of the federal executive board of the party'syouth organization and from 2009 to 2013 deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Hannover.
In a special party conference on 26 January 2014 Fahimi was elected with 88.5% of the votes to be Secretary General of the SPD under party chairmanSigmar Gabriel, and therefore successor ofAndrea Nahles. By late 2015, Gabriel replaced her withKatarina Barley.
From 2016 until 2018, Fahimi served as State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under the leadership of ministerAndrea Nahles. In this capacity, she oversaw the ministry's activities onoccupational safety and health;Old Age Security; matters concerning people with disabilities; and international employment and social policy (including relations with theInternational Labour Organization).
In November 2016, Fahimi announced that she would run for a parliamentary seat in the2017 national elections.[5] In theBundestag, she serves on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. As deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, she is her parliamentary group'srapporteur on relations toLatin America, theCaribbean,Spain,Portugal,Italy andMalta. In addition to her committee assignments, she has been chairing the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Friendship Group since 2018. Within the SPD parliamentary group, she belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[6]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Fahimi was part of her party's delegation in the working group on labor policy, co-chaired byHubertus Heil,Katharina Dröge andJohannes Vogel.[7]
In 2021German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) was looking for a woman to chair the organization. Fahimi's partner,Michael Vassiliadis, head ofIG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie, made himself available for the office but was eventually opposed byver.di, one of the main unions in DGB. Finally, Fahimi met with great approval among all trade unions. She was nominated in January 2022 as new chair of DGB.[8]
