1. Klara Geywitz served as member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2004 until 2019, and is a Deputy Leader of the SPD since 2019.
12 Facts About Klara Geywitz
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Klara Geywitz was born 1976 in Potsdam in the former German Democratic Republic.
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Klara Geywitz studied political science at the University of Potsdam.
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In 1992, Geywitz became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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From 2004 until 2019, Klara Geywitz was a member of the Landtag of Brandenburg.
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Klara Geywitz was always elected in First-past-the-post voting for her electoral district in Potsdam, until she was defeated in the 2019 state election by Greens candidate Marie Schaffer.
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From 2008 until 2013, Klara Geywitz served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Brandenburg, under the leadership of its chairman Matthias Platzeck.
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At a SPD national convention in 2019, Klara Geywitz was later elected as one of the five deputies of the party's co-chairs Esken and Walter-Borjans.
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Since 2020, Klara Geywitz has been working for the Brandenburg Court of Audit.
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On 6 December 2021, Klara Geywitz was announced as Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in the Scholz cabinet.
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In October 2023, Klara Geywitz participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.
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In 2020, following Thomas Oppermann's death, Klara Geywitz endorsed Dagmar Ziegler as his successor in the office of Vice-President of the German Bundestag.