1. Thomas Kutschaty was born on 12 June 1968 and is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as the leader of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2021 to 2023.
12 Facts About Thomas Kutschaty
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Thomas Kutschaty was born in Essen, West Germany in June 1968.
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Thomas Kutschaty's family was railway workers' family, with Kutschaty being the first to complete his Abitur.
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Thomas Kutschaty studied law at the Ruhr University Bochum, passing his first state exam in 1995 and his second in 1997.
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Thomas Kutschaty was active as a lawyer between 1997 and 2010.
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Thomas Kutschaty was elected to the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westfalia in the 2005 elections.
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Thomas Kutschaty served as the deputy chair of the committee investigating the prison JVA Siegburg.
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Thomas Kutschaty left government after the Hannelore Kraft and the SPD lost the 2017 state election against Armin Laschet and the Christian Democrats.
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Thomas Kutschaty was succeeded as justice minister by Peter Biesenbach.
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Thomas Kutschaty was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
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Thomas Kutschaty was the lead candidate for the Social Democrats in the 2022 North Rhine-Westfalia state election but lost out against incumbent Minister-President Hendrik Wust.
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Since January 2023, Thomas Kutschaty has been serving on an internal SPD commission on tax reform, co-chaired by Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil.