Federal Minister of the Interior and Community

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Nancy Faeser was appointed Federal Minister of the Interior and Community on 8 December 2021.

Nancy Faeser was born in Bad Soden am Taunus on 13 July 1970. She is married and has one child.

Since 8 December 2021, she has served as Federal Minister of the Interior and Community in the cabinet of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. A particular priority during her term as federal minister is the fight against right-wing extremism. She is the first woman to lead the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community.

Curriculum Vitae
since 1988Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
1990Abitur (higher education entrance qualification)
1990 - 1996Law studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Main); First State Examination in Law
1993 - 2021Member of the Main-Taunus district council
1996 - 1998Research assistant of Prof. Frankenberg at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Main)
1998 - 2000Practical legal training at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court; Second State Examination in Law
2000Internship abroad at the Robert J. Shepard law firm in San Francisco, USA
2001 - 2007Employed as a lawyer by the law firm Clifford Chance in Frankfurt (Main)
2003 - 2021Member of the Hesse state parliament
2006 - 2021Member of the Schwalbach am Taunus city council
2007 - 2021

Employed as a lawyer by the business law firm GOERG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbH

Frankfurt (Main)
2009 - 2019Deputy chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hesse state parliament
2014 - 2019Secretary-general of the SPD in Hesse
2019 - 2021Chair of the SPD parliamentary group in the Hesse state parliament
2019 bis 2024State party chair of the SPD in Hesse
Since 8 December 2021Federal Minister of the Interior and Community

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