Sebastian Hartmann
Sebastian Hartmann (born 7 July 1977) is a German politician who has been serving as chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia since 2018.
Sebastian Hartmann | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Oberhausen, West Germany (now Germany) | 7 July 1977
Citizenship | German |
Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) |
Alma mater | University of Cologne |
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.