1. Nancy Faeser was a member of the State Parliament of Hesse from the 2003 elections until 2021.
12 Facts About Nancy Faeser
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From 1990 to 2000 Nancy Faeser studied law at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Nancy Faeser completed a semester abroad at the New College of California and graduated with her second state bar exam as a licensed attorney.
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Until 2000, Nancy Faeser worked as a research assistant at Clifford Chance in Frankfurt am Main and then, after her bar exam, worked as a full-time lawyer at Clifford Chance from 2000 to 2007.
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In parliament, Nancy Faeser served as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on the Election of Judges, the Committee on Economic Affairs, Energy and Transport and the Committee on Internal Affairs.
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On 17 June 2023, Nancy Faeser was elected as the top candidate on the party list in the upcoming 2023 Hessian state election, and stood as the party's direct candidate in the Main-Taunus I electoral district in Frankfurt's northwestern suburbs, which includes her hometown of Schwalbach am Taunus.
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In March 2025, Nancy Faeser became member of the Bundestag for Hesse.
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Nancy Faeser was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
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In September 2022, the Ministry of the Interior under Nancy Faeser closed the "Expert Group on Political Islamism" set up by her predecessor, Horst Seehofer.
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In March 2023, Nancy Faeser participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Japan in Tokyo, chaired by Chancellor Scholz and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
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In July 2024 Nancy Faeser imposed a ban on the magazin Compact arguing that the magazine worked against constitutional order.
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Nancy Faeser has been married to lawyer Eyke Gruning since 2012.