Marja-Liisa Völlers

Marja-Liisa Völlers
Marja-Liisa Völlers in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
23 November 2017
Preceded byCarola Reimann
Personal details
Born (1984-09-28) 28 September 1984 (age 40)
Bückeburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Bielefeld

Marja-Liisa Völlers (born 28 September 1984) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2017.[1]

Political career

In the 2017 German federal election, Völlers stood in the SPD constituency of Nienburg II – Schaumburg. She lost to CDU candidate Maik Beermann.

Völlers became a member of the Bundestag in 2017 when she succeeded Carola Reimann who had resigned.[2] She is a member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment,[3][4] where she serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on digitization and inclusion. Following the 2021 elections, she also joined the Defence Committee and the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD.[5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Völlers has been a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2022, where she is part of the Defence and Security Committee.[6]

Within her parliamentary group, Völlers has been serving as one of the two speakers of the Seeheim Circle (alongside Dirk Wiese) since 2022.[7]

Other activities

References

  1. ^ "Marja-Liisa Völlers | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Marja-Liisa Völlers, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 November 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag - Health". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ^ "German Bundestag - Education, Research and Technology Assessment". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ^ Bundestag setzt Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium ein Bundestag, 24 March 2022.
  6. ^ Marja-Liisa Völlers NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
  7. ^ Veit Medick and Christian Teevs (15 December 2022), Zulauf für konservativen Flügel: In der SPD kippt die Macht Der Spiegel.
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