1. Manuela Schwesig was President of the Bundesrat from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024.
22 Facts About Manuela Schwesig
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Manuela Schwesig attended the Training and Further Education Centre in Konigs Wusterhausen.
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Manuela Schwesig became a member of SPD in 2003, at the age 29.
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Manuela Schwesig subsequently served as a member of the Schwerin City Council from 2004 to 2008.
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Manuela Schwesig became a Federal Deputy Leader of the SPD on 13 November 2009 alongside Thorsten Schafer-Gumbel and Olaf Scholz.
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Manuela Schwesig served as minister and became member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 4 September 2011 until she joined the federal government.
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Manuela Schwesig was a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2010,2012,2017 and 2022.
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In 2011, Manuela Schwesig led high-level talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen for the then-opposition Social Democrats on reaching a compromise over how to increase basic social welfare benefits for the unemployed.
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At an SPD convention in late 2015, Manuela Schwesig received 93 percent of members' ballots, the best result of any of the party leadership.
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Together with Doris Ahnen, Niels Annen, Oliver Kaczmarek and Anke Rehlinger, Manuela Schwesig co-chaired the SPD's extraordinary 2018 convention, during which the party elected Andrea Nahles as its first-ever female leader.
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In September 2019, Manuela Schwesig announced she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and would step down from her duties at national level.
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Manuela Schwesig is a member of the German Child Protection League.
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Manuela Schwesig's main focus is to fight child poverty and provide for good state childcare facilities.
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In 2014, Manuela Schwesig helped introducing a bill mandating compulsory quotas for women on the supervisory boards of the Germany's top companies, which was passed in early 2015.
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In 2016, Manuela Schwesig successfully introduced changes to Germany's maternity protection legislation by expanding the laws to include groups of women not explicitly covered and attempting to reduce bureaucratic red tape.
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Alongside Dietmar Woidke, Manuela Schwesig was instrumental in the Bundesrat's 2020 selection of Ines Hartel as the Federal Constitutional Court's first judge from East Germany.
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Furthermore, Manuela Schwesig was revealed to have been colluding with the Russians, allowing Gazprom to run PR for the pipeline via her office and modifying her public speeches in accordance with the Russian demands.
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Manuela Schwesig has been listed by Politico among 12 Germans who got played by Putin.
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Manuela Schwesig had demanded he limit his criticisms of her politics but a district court determined that it was well within allowed freedom of expression.
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Manuela Schwesig had contact with Oleg Eremenko who had formerly worked for the Russian secret service and now is the owner of a construction company in Berlin.
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Manuela Schwesig was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2019 and subsequently resigned from her party offices at the federal level.
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Manuela Schwesig later confirmed that the cancer was curable and underwent medical treatment.