Sebastian Hartmann
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Sebastian Hartmann | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | 7 July 1977 Oberhausen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
Sebastian Hartmann (born 7 July 1977) is a German politician who has been serving as chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia since 2018.
Early life and career[]
Hartmann was born 1977 in Oberhausen and, on a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, studied jurisprudence without achieving an academic degree.
From 2011 until 2013, Hartmann worked in the staff of Martin Schulz.
Political career[]
Hartmann joined the SPD in 1993.
In the 2013 elections, Hartmann became a member of the Bundestag, representing the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. In parliament, he first served on the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure from 2014 until 2015 before moving to the Committee on Internal Affairs. Since 2019, he has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[1]
In his capacity as the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on integration and asylum, Hartmann was the co-author of landmark legislation aimed at regulating economic immigration and helping immigrants integrate into German society.[2]
Since 2018 Hartmann has been serving as chairman of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state.[3]
Other activities[]
Regulatory agencies[]
- Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council (2014-2018)
Non-profit organizations[]
- Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)[4]
- Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), Alternate Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)
- IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE), Member
- German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member
- Workers’ Welfare Association (AWO), Member
References[]
- ^ Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly Deutscher Bundestag.
- ^ Bojan Pancevski (August 15, 2018), Immigrants, With Their Split Identities, Trigger Soul-Searching in Germany Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Vertretung bei repräsentativen Aufgaben". Rhein-Sieg-Kreis.
- ^ 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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