1. Svenja Schulze was born on 29 September 1968 and is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party.
18 Facts About Svenja Schulze
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Svenja Schulze serves as Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the cabinet of Olaf Scholz.
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Svenja Schulze was born in Dusseldorf and grew up in the Weckhoven district of Neuss.
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Svenja Schulze completed her school-leaving exam in 1988 at the Gymnasium Norf in Neuss.
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Svenja Schulze then studied German Studies and Political Science at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, which she completed in 1996 with the academic degree of Magistra Artium.
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Svenja Schulze joined the SPD in 1988 and served as highschool students' county spokesperson for North Rhine-Westphalia from 1988 to 1989, then as a member of the Socialist College Association and chair of the AStA at the University of Bochum.
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From 1993 to 1997, Svenja Schulze was North Rhine-Westphalia's regional leader of Jusos.
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From 1996 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2018, Svenja Schulze served on the leadership of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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From 3 June 1997 to 1 June 2000 and again from 22 October 2004, Svenja Schulze was a member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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In 2007, Svenja Schulze took over the chairmanship of the SPD sub-district Munster from Christoph Strasser and held it until 21 May 2011.
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From 2017 until 2018, Svenja Schulze served as Secretary General of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia, in this capacity supporting interim chairman Michael Groschek.
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Svenja Schulze later oversaw the introduction of 2021 legislation under which farmers in Germany would have to gradually reduce their use of glyphosate and stop using it completely from 2024 in order to preserve clean habitats for insects.
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In October 2020, Svenja Schulze announced that she would run for a parliamentary seat in the 2021 federal elections.
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Svenja Schulze took office in her new role on 8 December 2021.
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In September 2022, Svenja Schulze made available an additional 200 million euros to fund Ukraine's aid programs for those internally displaced as a result of Russia's invasion.
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In October 2023, Svenja Schulze joined the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Svenja Schulze opposed a waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of COVID-19.
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Svenja Schulze has been married to Italian-born trade unionist Andrea Arcais since 2011.