The office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers was established at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1988. In 2002, the Commissioner’s responsibilities were expanded to include the national minorities. Natalie Pawlik was appointed to this post on 13 April 2022. 

The Federal Government Commissioner serves as the main contact at federal level for ethnic German resettlers from Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union. She is responsible for coordinating the Federal Government's policy on ethnic German resettlers and for coordinating integration measures with the federal, state and local governments and with churches, charities and social organisations active in this area. She also provides assistance to German minorities in their countries of origin, coordinates aid policy measures and serves as co-chair on the government commissions concerning affairs of the German minorities. 

The Commissioner is also the main contact at federal level for the national minorities in Germany and represents the Federal Government in the relevant contact groups.

For more information about the work of the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities, please visit the Commissioner's website.

Natalie Pawlik was born in Wostok, Siberia (Russia) on 26 August 1992. In 1999, she moved with her parents and sister as ethnic German resettlers to the Federal Republic of Germany; she has lived in Bad Nauheim in the federal state of Hesse since then.

She received a B.A. in history and cultural studies from Giessen University. Starting in 2015, Ms Pawlik worked in the constituency office of Dr Udo Bullmann, member of the European Parliament, most recently as office manager. She was elected to the German Bundestag on 26 September 2021 as a direct candidate in constituency 177, Wetterau I.

Ms Pawlik is a member of the registered association Deutsche Jugend aus Russland e.V. (German youth from Russia), where she is an active volunteer in the area of civic education.