Michael Roth (politician)
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Michael Roth Minister of State
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Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office with Maria Böhmer (2013-present) |
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Assumed office 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Georg Link |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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August 24, 1970 Heringen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Michael Roth (born 24 August 1970 in Heringen) is a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Since 17 December 2013, he has been Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office in the third Merkel Cabinet. Since January 2014, he has also been Federal Government Commissioner for Franco German Cooperation.
Roth obtained his Abitur (higher education entrance qualification) at the Werratal secondary school in Heringen in 1990. After completing non military national service, he began studying political science, public law, sociology, and German language and literature at the Johann Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main in 1991. He was awarded a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and graduated with a degree in political science in 1997. He worked as a tutor at the Center for North American Studies and in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main until 1998 and as a lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin from 2000 to 2002.
Roth joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as a pupil in 1987. In his party he served as Deputy Federal Chairperson of the Young Socialists (youth section of the SPD) from 1993 to 1995, has been a member of the executive committee of the North Hesse district branch of the SPD since 1996, was Chairman of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg subdistrict branch of the SPD from 2001 to 2011 and Secretary-General of the Hesse Land branch of the SPD under the leadership of Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel from 2009 to 2014.
Roth became a Member of the German Bundestag for the first time in 1998, entering as the directly elected representative of the Hersfeld constituency with 51.7 percent of the first vote. In 2002 he was re elected to the Bundestag with 54.9 percent of the first vote of the newly merged constituency of Werra-Meißner – Hersfeld-Rotenburg. In subsequent elections he received 51.7 percent (2005) and 40.4 percent (2009) of the first vote.
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