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Six women from Hessen co-rule in Berlin

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The Greens and the Main-Taunus-Kreis are particularly well represented in Berlin. Now the Hessian SPD leader Nancy Faeser is going to the cabinet of Olaf Scholz as Minister of the Interior.

It was a bang on Monday morning. Nancy Faeser, Hessian SPD leader, is to become Federal Minister of the Interior. She is not the only Hessian who is now to become part of the new federal government. Six women from Hessen will have their say in Berlin in future.

No less than three ministers of the new federal government formed by the Ampel coalition come from Hesse. In addition to Nancy Faeser, the future Minister of the Interior, there is Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP), whose appointment as Minister of Education took place ten days ago.

Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) becomes Federal Minister of Education.

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Bettina Stark-Watzinger previously acted as parliamentary managing director of the FDP parliamentary group. The economist has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017. The 53-year-old has also been chairwoman of the Hessian FDP since March 2021. Stark-Watzinger grew up in Bad Soden, where she still lives today. In an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau, she campaigned for more equal opportunities and an expansion of the digital infrastructure.

Nancy Faeser is not far from her future government colleague at home. She comes from Schwalbach am Taunus. She has been leading the Hessian SPD since 2019, and since then she has also been chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group. The 51-year-old lawyer was given a good chance of replacing Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) in his office after the next state elections. It was not known on Monday whether this could still be an option. Above all, she wants to fight the emerging right-wing extremism in Berlin. What is certain is that the SPD woman, who is considered to be technically adept and always cheerful, will be absent from her party in Hesse.

Christine Lambrecht (SPD) becomes Minister of Defense.

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Third Hessin in the cabinet becomes Christine Lambrecht . She grew up in Viernheim in southern Hesse, where she graduated from high school. The SPD politician has been a member of the Bundestag since 1998 and did not apply again for a seat in the Bundestag election in September. In 2019, the now 56-year-old succeeded Katarina Barley as Federal Minister of Justice. In May 2021 she also took over the family ministry from Franziska Giffey. Now she is supposed to change to the defense department.

Anna Lührmann (Greens) becomes Minister of State for Europe in the Foreign Office.

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Anna Luhrmann moved into the German Bundestag in 2001 at the age of just 19 as the youngest member of the German Bundestag, to which she was a member until 2009. Like Faeser and Stark-Watzinger, she also comes from the Main-Taunus district, where she passed her A-levels in Hofheim. After a political break, she has now moved back into the Bundestag. Lührmann, now 38 years old, will become Minister of State for Europe in the Foreign Office under Annalena Baerbock (Greens).

Bettina Hoffmann (Greens) becomes Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry.

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Bettina Hoffmann was the top candidate of the Hessian Greens in the recent federal election campaign. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. Hoffmann comes from Heimboldtshausen in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district. The doctor of biology was the managing director of an agency for planning and communication from 1999 to 2017. In the Bundestag she was the chairwoman of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The 61-year-old is to become Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry led by Steffi Lemke (Greens).

Manuela Rotmann (Greens) (center) becomes State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture.

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The Hessian sextet in Berlin completes the Green Manuela Rottmann . The lawyer is not really Hessin, she was born in Würzburg and now lives in Bavaria again. However, she studied in Frankfurt, where she was City Councilor for Environment, Health and Human Resources from 2006 to July 2012. The now 49-year-old has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. In the Federal Ministry of Agriculture of Cem Özdemir (Greens) Rottmann is supposed to work as Parliamentary State Secretary.

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