Gabriele Katzmarek

{{Short description|German politician}}

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| name = Gabriele Katzmarek

| office = Member of the Bundestag

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| term_start = 2013

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1960|7|8}}

| birth_place = Marl, West Germany
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| party = SPD

| nationality = German

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Gabriele Katzmarek (born 8 July 1960) is a German trade unionist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/gabriele-katzmarek|title=Gabriele Katzmarek {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}}

Political career

Katzmarek first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/katzmarek|title=Gabriele Katzmarek, MdB|date=2013-09-23|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}} She is a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a09|title=German Bundestag - Economic Affairs and Energy|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-20}} In 2019, she was elected as one of her parliamentary group’s whips, under the leadership of chairman Rolf Mützenich. In this capacity, she also joined the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.

In addition to her committee assignments, Katzmarek is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Katzmarek was part of her party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs, co-chaired by Carsten Schneider, Cem Özdemir and Michael Theurer.[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP]{{Dead link|date=December 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.

In July 2024 she announced that she isn't seeking re-election for Bundestag.

{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-14 |date=2024-07-10 |title=Rastatter SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Gabriele Katzmarek tritt nicht wieder an |url=https://bnn.de/mittelbaden/rastatt/rastatter-spd-bundestagsabgeordnete-gabriele-katzmarek-tritt-nicht-wieder-an |website=bnn.de}}

Other activities

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