Saskia Esken

Saskia Esken (née Hofer, born 28 August 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has been serving as co-leader of the party since being elected as co-leader on December 2019 (alongside Norbert Walter-Borjans). She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and an IT specialist.

Saskia Esken
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
Assumed office
6 December 2019
General SecretaryLars Klingbeil
DeputyKlara Geywitz
Hubertus Heil
Kevin Kühnert
Serpil Midyatli
Anke Rehlinger
Preceded byMalu Dreyer (acting)
Member of the Bundestag
for Baden-Württemberg
Assumed office
22 September 2013
ConstituencySocial Democratic List
Personal details
Born (1961-08-28) 28 August 1961
Stuttgart, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Nationality Germany
Political partySPD

Early life and career

Esken was born 1961 in Stuttgart and became an IT specialist.[1]

Political career

Esken entered the SPD in 1990. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 elections, representing Calw. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on the Digital Agenda. In this capacity, she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on privacy, IT security, digital education and eGovernment.

From 2013 until 2017, Esken was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment as well as of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.[2] Following the 2017 elections, she also joined the Committee on Internal Affairs.

Within her parliamentary group, Esken is part of working groups on digital issues (since 2014) and on consumer protection (since 2018) as well as of the Parlamentarische Linke (Parliamentary Left), an association of left-wing MPs.[3]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Esken was part of the working group on digital policy, led Helge Braun, Dorothee Bär and Lars Klingbeil.

Together with Norbert Walter-Borjans, Esken announced her candidacy for the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election.[4] The November 2019 run-off was won by Esken and Walter-Borjans.[5]

Political positions

In March 2019, Esken opposed the European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and its article 13.[6]

Also in 2019, Esken called repeatedly for a renegotiation of the 2018 coalition treaty on issues such as government spending and climate change policy.[7]

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Non-profit organizations

References
  1. "Deutscher Bundestag - Saskia Esken".
  2. "Baden-Württemberg MdB- Europa Union Deutschland". www.europa-union.de.
  3. "Parlamentarische Linke - Unsere Mitglieder".
  4. "Kandidatenrennen: Walter-Borjans und Esken wollen SPD-Vorsitzende werden". August 28, 2019 – via Spiegel Online.
  5. Braun, Stefan (30 November 2019). "SPD-Basis entscheidet sich für das ganz große Experiment". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  6. "Upload-Filter? Ich trinke sowieso nur Espresso - Saskia Esken". www.saskiaesken.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  7. Tobias Buck (November 30, 2019), Blow to Merkel as leftwingers win SPD leadership Financial Times.
  8. Members of the Advisory Board Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA)
  9. Advisory Board Stiftung Datenschutz.
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