Susanne Mittag

Susanne Mittag
Susanne Mittag in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
for Lower Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2013
ConstituencySocial Democratic List
Personal details
Born (1958-07-25) 25 July 1958 (age 66)
Cleveland, United States
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD

Susanne Mittag (born 25 July 1958) is a German policewoman 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 2013.

Political career

Born in Cleveland, Mittag became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[1] She unsuccessfully contested Delmenhorst – Wesermarsch – Oldenburg-Land in 2013 and 2017.

In parliament, Mittag is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on Food and Agriculture.[2][3] Since 2018, she has also been a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Mittag was part of her party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired by Till Backhaus, Renate Künast and Carina Konrad.[4]

Since the 2021 elections, Mittag has been serving as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for agriculture and nutrition.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Susanne Mittag, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag - Food and Agriculture". German Bundestag. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  4. ^ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP[permanent dead link‍] Deutschlandfunk, 27 October 2021.
  5. ^ Jonas Jordan (17 December 2021), SPD-Fraktion: Das sind die Sprecher*innen der Ausschussarbeitsgruppen[permanent dead link‍] Vorwärts.
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