1. Christoph Matschie was a member of the Bundestag from 1999 to 2004 and from 2017 to 2021.
10 Facts About Christoph Matschie
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Christoph Matschie was a member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 2004.
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Christoph Matschie served as chairman of the SPD in Thuringia from 1999 until 2014.
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Christoph Matschie co-chaired the SPD's national conventions in Bochum, Berlin and Hamburg.
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Christoph Matschie was his party's candidate for Minister-President at the State elections of 2004 and 2009.
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Christoph Matschie became State Minister for Education, Youth and Sport as well as Deputy Minister-President in the government of Minister-President Christine Lieberknecht.
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Christoph Matschie was re-elected to the Bundestag in the 2017 elections.
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Christoph Matschie served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on the United Nations.
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In September 2020, Christoph Matschie announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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From 1997 until 2010, Christoph Matschie was married to Ethiopian-born political scientist and aid worker Mitslal Kifleyesus.