Brigitte Zypries
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2014
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| Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy | |
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Assumed office 27 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Sigmar Gabriel |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2005 |
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| Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy | |
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In office December 2013 – 27 January 2017 |
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Federal Minister of Justice Germany
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In office 22 October 2002 – 27 October 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Herta Däubler-Gmelin |
| Succeeded by | Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger |
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16 November 1953 Kassel, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) |
| Alma mater | University of Giessen |
| Website | brigittezypries.de |
Brigitte Zypries (born 16 November 1953) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since January 2017, she has been serving as Minister for Economics and Energy in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. She is the first woman to hold that office in German history.
Zypries had previously been Parliamentary State Secretary since December 2013, charged with the coordination of Germany's aviation and space policies. She was Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 2002 to 2009 and State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1998 to 2002.
Zypries studied law at the University of Giessen from 1972 to 1977, and took her first legal state exam in 1978. Then followed in-service training in the regional court district of Gießen, and in 1980 the second state exam. Until 1985 she worked at the University of Giessen.
Following the 1998 federal elections, in the first cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Zypries became State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Otto Schily. From September 1999, she chaired the State Secretary Committee for the management of the Federal Government program "Modern State — Modern Administration".
Following the 2002 federal elections, Zypries became Federal Minister of Justice in the second cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, succeeding Herta Däubler-Gmelin. Between 2007 and 2009, she was also one of 32 members of the Second Commission on the modernization of the federal state (Föderalismuskommission II), which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany.
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