Katja Hessel
Katja Hessel | |
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![]() Katja Hessel in 2016 | |
Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Nürnberg, West Germany (now Germany) | 5 May 1972
Political party | FDP |
Alma mater | University of Erlangen–Nuremberg |
Katja Hessel (born 5 May 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[1] She has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.[2]
Early life and career
Hessel was born in Nuremberg in 1972. In 1991, she passed her Abitur and then studied law in Erlangen until 1996. She passed her first state examination in 1996 and her second in 1998.
Kessel started working as a lawyer in her own law firm in 1999 and became a tax consultant in 2002.
Political career
In 1999, Hessel joined the FDP. She was a State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology under minister Martin Zeil in the government of Minister-President Horst Seehofer from 2008 to 2013.
Hessel became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Nuremberg North district. From 2018 until 2021, she was a member of the Finance Committee, which she chaired from 2020.
In addition to her committee assignments, Hessel is part of the German-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Hessel 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.[3]
Other activities
- Kiwanis, Member
References
- ^ Katrin Schirner (4 December 2021), Katja Hessel: Lindner setzt auf diese Frau Bayerischer Rundfunk.
- ^ "Katja Hessel | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, 27 October 2021.
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