Katja Mast
{{short description|German politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Katja Mast
| image = Katja Mast 2020-07-02.jpg
| caption = Mast in 2020
| office1 = Chief Whip of the SPD Group in the Bundestag
| leader1 = Rolf Mützenich
| term_start1 = 9 December 2021
| term_end1 =
| predecessor1 = Carsten Schneider
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| office2 = Member of the Bundestag
| term_start2 = 18 September 2005
| term_end2 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|2|4}}
| birth_place = Offenburg, West Germany
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| party = SPD (since 1993)
| nationality = German
| children =
| alma_mater = University of Heidelberg
| occupation =
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Katja Mast (born 4 February 1971) is a German politician of the SPD who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/katja-mast|title=Katja Mast {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}}
Early career
Before entering politics, Mast worked in human resources at Deutsche Bahn from 2003 to 2005.Sandra Schmid (30 November 2009), [https://www.das-parlament.de/2009/49/MenschenMeinungen/27978472-304362 Verfechterin des Mindestlohns: Katja Mast] Das Parlament.
Political career
= Early beginnings =
= Member of the German Parliament, 2005–present =
Mast became a member of the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election, representing the Pforzheim district.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/mast|title=Katja Mast, MdB|date=2011-06-27|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}} From 2005 to 2017, she served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs. From 2017 until 2021, she served as one of her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017–2019) and Rolf Mützenich (2019–2021).Anna Lehmann (18 July 2022), [https://taz.de/SPD-und-Hartz-IV/!5868914/ SPD und Hartz IV: Die Aufsteigerin] Die Tageszeitung. Since 2022, Mast she has been the group's chief whipAnna Lehmann (18 July 2022), [https://taz.de/SPD-und-Hartz-IV/!5868914/ SPD und Hartz IV: Die Aufsteigerin] Die Tageszeitung. and – in this capacity – has been serving on the Mediation Committee{{Cite web|url=https://www.vermittlungsausschuss.de/VA/DE/mitglieder/bundestag-mitglieder/vermittlungsausschuss-bundestag-liste-mit-stellvertreter-node.html|title=Vermittlungsausschuss - Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages|website=Bundesrat|language=de|access-date=2020-03-20}} as well as the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw04-de-gremienwahl-878328 Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt] Bundestag, 27 January 2022.
In addition to her parliamentary work, Mast served as secretary general of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2016, under the leadership of chairman Nils Schmid.Arnold Rieger (23 August 2011), [https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.katja-mast-die-neue-soll-spd-pur-ausschenken.176d4ca6-14fd-4682-a97a-791435ed3b04.html Katja Mast: Die Neue soll SPD pur ausschenken] Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Mast was part of her party's delegation in the working group on social policy, co-chaired by Dagmar Schmidt, Sven Lehmann and Johannes Vogel.Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), [https://www.waz.de/politik/koaltionsverhandlungen-spd-gruene-fdp-ampel-arbeitsgruppen-id233641303.html SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition] Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Other activities
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.katja-mast.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/mast_katja-521890 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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