Dagmar Ziegler (born 28 September 1960) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) who served as a member of the

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from the state of

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from 2009 until 2021.

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

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, 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

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. From 2009 until 2013, she was

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FOR

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in north-western

State, and served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman

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. She lost her

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to Sebastian Steineke from the CDU, but was elected on the state list. In the negotiations to form a ''

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'' of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats ( CDU together with the Bavarian

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) 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

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and

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. 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. Ziegler contested the same constituency in

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, 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. In her final year in parliament, she serves as the parliament's vice-president, following the sudden death of

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Other activities

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(GIZ), Member of the Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees

(GIZ).

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