Sarah Ryglewski

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Sarah Ryglewski
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Ryglewski in 2014
Parliamentary State Secretary for Finance
Assumed office
28 August 2019
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byChristine Lambrecht
Member of the Bundestag
for Bremen I
Assumed office
16 July 2015
Preceded byCarsten Sieling
Personal details
Born (1983-01-31) 31 January 1983 (age 38)
Köln, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Bremen

Sarah Ryglewski (born 31 January 1983) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bremen since 2015. In 2019, she was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.[1]

Early life and education[]

Born in Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ryglewski studied political science at the University of Bremen from 2002 until 2009.

Political career[]

After Carsten Sieling was elected mayor of Bremen in July 2015, Ryglewski took his seat as a member of the Bundestag. In parliament, she served on the Finance Committee (2015-2019), the Committee on Petitions (2015-2017), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018-2019) and the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs (2018-2019).

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas. From 2018 until 2019, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for consumer protections issues.

In 2019, Ryglewski succeeded Christine Lambrecht as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, under the leadership of minister Olaf Scholz.[2]

Other activities[]

  • Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Olaf Storbeck (July 12, 2020), Merkel’s government pressed to release conversations with former Wirecard chief Financial Times.
  2. ^ "Minister and senior leadership". Federal Ministry of Finance.
  3. ^ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.

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