Swen Schulz

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Swen Schulz
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Swen Schulz in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin Spandau – Charlottenburg North
Assumed office
17 October 2002
Preceded byWolfgang Behrendt (2002), Kai Wegner (2017)
Succeeded byKai Wegner (2009)
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1968-03-01) 1 March 1968 (age 53)
Hamburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Alma materFree University of Berlin

Swen Schulz (born 1 March 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2002.[1]

Political career[]

Schulz became a member of the Bundestag after the 2002 German federal election.[2] From 2002 until 2013, he served on the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Schulz was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and . Since 2014, he has been a member of the Budget Committee.[3] In this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

In 2018, Schulz announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]

Other activities[]

  • Association of German Foundations, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
  • Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Member of the Board of Trustees[5]
  • Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study, Member of the Board of Trustees[6]
  • University of Hagen, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
  • Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie, Member
  • Humanist Association of Germany (HVD), Member

References[]

  1. ^ "Swen Schulz | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. ^ "Swen Schulz (Spandau), MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. ^ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach (June 26, 2018), Sozialdemokrat Swen Schulz kandidiert nicht mehr für Bundestag Der Tagesspiegel.
  5. ^ Board of Trustees Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).
  6. ^ Board of Trustees Ernst Reuter Foundation for Advanced Study.

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