Sarah Janina Ryglewski (born 31 January 1983) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bremen since 2015.

Sarah Ryglewski
Ryglewski in 2021
Minister of State in the Chancellery
Coordinator of Federal-State Relations
Assumed office
8 December 2021
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
Preceded byHendrik Hoppenstedt
Parliamentary State Secretary
in the Ministry of Finance
In office
2 September 2019 – 8 December 2021
Serving with Bettina Hagedorn
ChancellorAngela Merkel
MinisterOlaf Scholz
Preceded byChristine Lambrecht
Succeeded byFlorian Toncar
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the Bundestag
for Bremen
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Preceded byCarsten Sieling (2015)
ConstituencyBremen I
In office
17 July 2015 – 24 October 2017
Preceded byCarsten Sieling
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencySocial Democratic Party List
Member of the
Bürgerschaft of Bremen
for Bremen
In office
8 June 2011 – 16 July 2015
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bySascha Karolin Aulepp
ConstituencySocial Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born (1983-01-31) 31 January 1983 (age 41)
Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partySocial Democratic Party (2001–)
Alma materUniversity of Bremen
Occupation
  • Politician
  • Civil Servant
Website

In addition to her parliamentary work, Ryglewski has served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (2019–2021)[1] and as Minister of State for Federal-State Relations in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.[2]

Early life and education

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Born in Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia,[3] Ryglewski studied political science at the University of Bremen from 2002 until 2009.

Political career

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Career in state politics

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Since 2010, Ryglewski has been the deputy chair of the SPD in Bremen.

From 2011 to 2015, Ryglewski served as a member of the State Parliament of Bremen. She was her parliamentary group’s spokesperson on consumer protection issues.

Member of the German Parliament, 2015–present

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After Carsten Sieling was elected mayor of Bremen in July 2015, Ryglewski took his seat as a member of the Bundestag, representing the Bremen I district. In parliament, she served on the Finance Committee (2015-2019), the Committee on Petitions (2015-2017), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018-2019) and the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs (2018-2019). Within the SPD parliamentary group, she belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[4][5]

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas. From 2018 until 2019, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for consumer protections issues.

In 2019, Ryglewski succeeded Christine Lambrecht as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, under the leadership of minister Olaf Scholz.[6][7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.[8]

In July 2024, Ryglewski announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[9]

Other activities

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References

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  1. ^ Olaf Storbeck (July 12, 2020), Merkel’s government pressed to release conversations with former Wirecard chief Financial Times.
  2. ^ Markus Peters (7 December 2021), Das sagt Sarah Ryglewski über ihren Wechsel ins Bundeskanzleramt Weser-Kurier.
  3. ^ Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
  4. ^ Members Parliamentary Left.
  5. ^ Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
  6. ^ "Minister and senior leadership". Federal Ministry of Finance.
  7. ^ Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
  8. ^ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP[permanent dead link] Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
  9. ^ Maren Schubart (9 July 2024), Bremer SPD-Politikerin kündigt Rückzug aus dem Bundestag an buten un binnen.
  10. ^ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Archived 20 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.
  11. ^ Foundation Bodies Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
  12. ^ Editorial board Archived 16 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine spw – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft’'.
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