Andrea Nahles, German politician, German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a German politician, who served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 until June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 until June 2019. She served as a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. Since 2020, Nahles has been serving as president of the Federal Posts and Telecommunications Agency.Nahles is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010. In June 2019, in the aftermath of the SPD's result in the 2019 European elections, she announced her resignation as leader of the SPD and as parliamentary leader of the SPD. For the transition period until a new SPD-leader was elected, Manuela Schwesig, Malu Dreyer and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel acted as her successors.
Nahles left the Bundestag on 31 October 2019.