Bärbel Bas
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Key facts
- Chancellor
- Friedrich Merz
- Preceded by
- Hubertus Heil
- Deputy
- Petra Köpping , Serpil Midyatli , Achim Post , Anke Rehlinger , Alexander Schweitzer
- General secretary
- Tim Klüssendorf
- Succeeded by
- Julia Klöckner
- Leader
- Rolf Mützenich
- Born
- ( 1968-05-03 ) 3 May 1968 (age 58) , Duisburg , West Germany
- Party
- SPD (since 1988)
- Spouse
- Siegfried Ambrosius ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 ; died 2020 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Duisburg
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Participant in
- 2017 German presidential election
- Official website
- www.baerbelbas.de
- Image
- Empfang für Bundestagspräsidentin Bärbel Bas im Kölner Rathaus-5456.jpg
- Number of children
- 0
- Work location
- Berlin
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- name in native language
- Bärbel Bas
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- Bärbel Bas
- social media followers
- 85
- date of birth
- 1968-05-03
- biography at the Bundestag of Germany URL
- www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/B/bas_baerbel-857120
- candidacy in election
- 2013 German federal election
- catalog code
- 11004006
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Encyclopedic overview
Bärbel Bas ( German: [ˈbɛʁbl̩ ˈbaːs]; born 3 May 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. Also since 2025, she has been serving as one of two co-leaders of her party, alongside Lars Klingbeil.
Bas has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2009. She served as the 14th president of the Bundestag from 2021 to 2025. She also served as the deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Rolf Mützenich from 2019 to 2021.
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