Nina Scheer

Nina Scheer (born 11 September 1971) is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. She is the daughter of Hermann Scheer.

Nina Scheer
Nina Scheer in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1971-09-11) 11 September 1971
Berlin
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Children1

Early life and career

Scheer was born in Berlin. From 1991 to 1996 she studied music with a specialization in the violin at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, then studied law at the University of Bonn. In 2008 she obtained a doctorate in political science at the University of Leipzig.[1]

Political career

Scheer has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 elections, standing in the electoral district Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd, which encompasses the administrative district Duchy of Lauenburg and parts of Stormarn. Though she lost to Norbert Brackmann in both elections, she entered parliament through the SPD's party list.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 elections, Scheer was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on energy policy, led by Peter Altmaier and Hannelore Kraft.[2]

Scheer served on the Committee on the Economic Affairs and Energy from 2014 until 2017 before moving to the Committee on the Environment, Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as well as to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection in 2018. In this capacity, she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on nuclear energy. In addition, she has been a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development since 2018.

Jointly with Karl Lauterbach, she was a candidate in the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, with an emphasis on combating climate change.[3] The duo was eliminated in the first round of voting with 14.6% of the vote.[4]

Other activities

Government bodies

Non-profit organizations

References
  1. "German Bundestag - Dr. Nina Scheer". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  2. "SPD mit dem Fuß an der Bremse". Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  3. "Mache Dir ein Bild von Nina Scheer & Karl Lauterbach!". Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  4. "German Finance Minister Scholz favorite to lead SPD — but faces runoff". Retrieved 2019-12-19.
  5. Mitglieder des Kuratoriums der Stiftung „Fonds zur Finanzierung der kerntechnischen Entsorgung“ benannt Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, press release of March 12, 2017.
  6. Members of the Advisory Board Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA)
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