Marja-Liisa Völlers
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| office = Member of the Bundestag
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| caption = Marja-Liisa Völlers in 2021
| term_start = 23 November 2017
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| predecessor = Carola Reimann
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|9|28}}
| birth_place = Bückeburg, West Germany
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| party = SPD
| nationality = German
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| alma_mater = University of Bielefeld
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Marja-Liisa Völlers (born 28 September 1984) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/marja-liisa-voellers|title=Marja-Liisa Völlers {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}}
Political career
In the 2017 German federal election, Völlers stood in the SPD constituency of Nienburg II – Schaumburg. She lost to CDU candidate Maik Beermann.
Völlers became a member of the Bundestag in 2017 when she succeeded Carola Reimann who had resigned.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/voellers|title=Marja-Liisa Völlers, MdB|date=2017-11-23|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}} She is a member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a14|title=German Bundestag - Health|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a18|title=German Bundestag - Education, Research and Technology Assessment|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}} where she serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on digitization and inclusion. Following the 2021 elections, she also joined the Defence Committee and the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD.[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw12-de-parl-kontrollgremium-885558 Bundestag setzt Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium ein] Bundestag, 24 March 2022.
In addition to her committee assignments, Völlers has been a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2022, where she is part of the Defence and Security Committee.[https://www.nato-pa.int/members/vollers-marja-liisa Marja-Liisa Völlers] NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Within her parliamentary group, Völlers has been serving as one of the two speakers of the Seeheim Circle (alongside Dirk Wiese) since 2022.Veit Medick and Christian Teevs (15 December 2022), [https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/in-der-spd-kippt-die-macht-a-bd606ad9-a85b-4797-b141-b93e6c49946d Zulauf für konservativen Flügel: In der SPD kippt die Macht] Der Spiegel.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition under the leadership of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2025 German elections, Völlers was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense, development cooperation and human rights, led by Johann Wadephul, Florian Hahn and Svenja Schulze.Katharina Seiler (13 March 2025), [https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/Koalitionsverhandlungen-zwischen-Union-und-SPD-getartet,koalitionsverhandlungen352.html Koalitionsverhandlungen zwischen Union und SPD gestartet] Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
Other activities
- Education and Science Workers' Union (GEW), Member
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.marjavoellers.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/524274-524274 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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