Elvan Korkmaz

Elvan Korkmaz
Member of the Bundestag
In office 2017–2021
Personal details
Born	(1985-07-27) 27 July 1985 (age 39) Gütersloh, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	SPD

Elvan Korkmaz (born 27 July 1985 in Gütersloh) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who was a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2021.^[1]

Political career

Korkmaz became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.^[2] In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Agenda Committee.^[3][4]

Korkmaz lost her seat in the 2021 German federal election.^[5] In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, she was nonetheless part of her party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.^[6]

Life after politics

Since 2022, Korkmaz has been working at public affairs agency Gauly in Berlin.^[7]

Other activities

• Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)^[8]
• Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council^[9]

Personal life

Korkmaz is of ethnic Turkish origin.^[10][11]

References

1. "Elvan Korkmaz-Emre | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
2. "Elvan Korkmaz-Emre, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 25 September 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
3. "German Bundestag – Transport and Digital Infrastructure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
4. "German Bundestag – Digital Agenda". German Bundestag. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
5. Holzkamp, Rainer. "Elvan Korkmaz-Emre soll neue Vorsitzende des SPD-Stadtverbands werden". Gütersloh: Aktuelle News & Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 17 October 2021.
6. Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
7. "Lasst es uns rocken" - Ehemalige Bundestagsabgeordnete hat neuen Job Neue Westfälische, 31 May 2022.
8. Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Archived 20 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of July 1, 2020.
9. Members of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA).
10. Die Vizechefin: Elvan Korkmaz, Westdeutsche Zeitung, 2014, retrieved 3 April 2021
11. Holzkamp, Rainer (2019), Kommentar zu Elvan Korkmaz: "Gutes Krisenmanagement sieht anders aus", retrieved 3 April 2021

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Bundestag biography (in English)