Sylvia Lehmann (born 23 April 1954) is a German politician of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

(SPD) who has been serving as a member of the

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from the state of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

since 2019.

Political career

Between 2004 and 2019 Lehmann was a member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg. Lehmann has been a member of the German Bundestag since 3 December 2019, representing the

Dahme-Spreewald – Teltow-Fläming III – Oberspreewald-Lausitz I Dahme-Spreewald ( dsb, Wokrejs Damna-Błota) is a district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the districts of Oder-Spree, Spree-Neiße, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Elbe-Elster and Teltow-Fläming, and by the city of ...

constituency. In that capacity, she serves on the Committee on Food and Agriculture.

Other activities

Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship The Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship (german: Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, alternatively translated as "(Federal) Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany") is a governmen ...

, Alternate Member of the Board of TrusteesFoundation Bodies

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Bundestag biography
1954 births Living people People from Drebkau People from Bezirk Cottbus Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany Members of the Bundestag for Brandenburg Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Female members of the Bundestag 21st-century German women politicians {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub