Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter | |
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Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter at United Nations (2016)
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Parliamentary State Secretary for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety | |
Assumed office 17 December 2013 |
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Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
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Born |
Waldshut |
13 October 1962
Nationality | German |
Political party | Social Democratic Party |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Website | www |
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (born 13 October 1962) is a German Social Democrat politician, a member of the German Bundestag (the German federal parliament) and a Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet.
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter was born on 13 October 1962 in Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg. She studied Business Administration at the University of Freiburg and ETH Zurich, graduating in 1989.
She is married and has two children.
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1994 and has been a member of the executive board of the SPD party organization for Waldshut since 1995. Since 2001 she has been the chairwoman of the SPD constituency party for the district of Waldshut. She was a member of the municipal council of her home town of Lauchringen from 1999 to the end of 2013. Since 2004 she has also been a member of the district council of the rural district of Waldshut.
Since September 2007 she has been a member of the SPD executive board in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and from 2008 to 2009 she headed the national SPD Executive Committee's working group on sustainable mobility.
From 1997 to 2005 Schwarzelühr-Sutter worked as an advisor and communications coordinator/strategist for Karin Rehbock-Zureich , a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.