Dagmar Ziegler
{{Short description|German politician (born 1960)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Dagmar Ziegler
| office = Vice President of the Bundestag
(on proposal of the SPD-faction)
| term_start = 26 November 2020
| term_end = 26 October 2021
| predecessor = Thomas Oppermann
| successor = Aydan Özoğuz
| office1 = Member of the Bundestag
| image = File:2020-02-13 Dagmar Ziegler (KPFC) 01.jpg
| caption = Dagmar Ziegler in 2020
| term_start1 = 2009
| term_end1 = 2021
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|9|28}}
| birth_place = Leipzig, East Germany
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| party = SPD
| nationality = German
| children =
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Dagmar Ziegler (born 28 September 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 2009 until 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/dagmar-ziegler|title=Dagmar Ziegler {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}}
Political career
= Career in state politics =
From 1994 until 2009, Ziegler was a member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg. In the government of Minister-President Matthias Platzeck, she served as State Minister of Finance (2000-2004) and State Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Families (2004-2009).
= Member of the German Parliament, 2009–2021 =
Ziegler became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/ziegler|title=Dagmar Ziegler, MdB|date=2011-06-27|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}} From 2009 until 2013, she was Member of the Bundestag FOR Prignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – Havelland I in north-western Brandenburg State, and served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
She lost her constituency in 2013 to Sebastian Steineke from the CDU, but was elected on the state 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 federal elections, Ziegler was part of her party's delegation in the working group on families, women and equality, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz and Manuela Schwesig.
From 2014, Ziegler served on the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. In 2018, she also joined the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a19|title=German Bundestag - Economic Cooperation and Development|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}
Ziegler contested the same constituency in 2017, but failed. She returned to the Bundestag on the list.
In December 2019, Ziegler announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.Benjamin Lassiwe (December 16, 2019), [https://www.pnn.de/brandenburg/dagmar-ziegler-tritt-nicht-wieder-an-spd-bundestagsabgeordnete-hoert-2021-auf/25341104.html Dagmar Ziegler tritt nicht wieder an: SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete hört 2021 auf] Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten. In her final year in parliament, she serves as the parliament's vice-president, following the sudden death of Thomas Oppermann.
Other activities
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.dagmar-ziegler.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/ziegler_dagmar-524770 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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