Sarah Ryglewski

Sarah Ryglewski MdB
Ryglewski in 2021
Minister of State in the Chancellery Coordinator of Federal-State Relations
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 December 2021
Chancellor	Olaf Scholz
Preceded by	Hendrik Hoppenstedt
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance
In office 2 September 2019 – 8 December 2021 Serving with Bettina Hagedorn
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Minister	Olaf Scholz
Preceded by	Christine Lambrecht
Succeeded by	Florian Toncar
Parliamentary constituencies Member of the Bundestag for Bremen Incumbent Assumed office 24 October 2017 Preceded by Carsten Sieling (2015) Constituency Bremen I In office 17 July 2015 – 24 October 2017 Preceded by Carsten Sieling Succeeded by multi-member district Constituency Social Democratic Party List Member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen for Bremen In office 8 June 2011 – 16 July 2015 Preceded by multi-member district Succeeded by Sascha Karolin Aulepp Constituency Social Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born	(1983-01-31) 31 January 1983 (age 41) Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Social Democratic Party (2001–)
Alma mater	University of Bremen
Occupation	Politician Civil Servant
Website	Official website Governmental website

Sarah Janina Ryglewski (born 31 January 1983) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bremen since 2015.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Ryglewski has served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel (2019–2021)^[1] and as Minister of State for Federal-State Relations in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia,^[3] Ryglewski studied political science at the University of Bremen from 2002 until 2009.

Political career

Career in state politics

Since 2010, Ryglewski has been the deputy chair of the SPD in Bremen.

From 2011 to 2015, Ryglewski served as a member of the State Parliament of Bremen. She was her parliamentary group’s spokesperson on consumer protection issues.

Member of the German Parliament, 2015–present

After Carsten Sieling was elected mayor of Bremen in July 2015, Ryglewski took his seat as a member of the Bundestag, representing the Bremen I district. In parliament, she served on the Finance Committee (2015-2019), the Committee on Petitions (2015-2017), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018-2019) and the Budget Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs (2018-2019). Within the SPD parliamentary group, she belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.^[4][5]

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas. From 2018 until 2019, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for consumer protections issues.

In 2019, Ryglewski succeeded Christine Lambrecht as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance, under the leadership of minister Olaf Scholz.^[6][7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Ryglewski was part of her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.^[8]

In July 2024, Ryglewski announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.^[9]

Other activities

• Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)^[10]
• Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019)^[11]
• spw – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft, Member of the Editorial Board^[12]
• German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member

References

1. Olaf Storbeck (July 12, 2020), Merkel’s government pressed to release conversations with former Wirecard chief Financial Times.
2. Markus Peters (7 December 2021), Das sagt Sarah Ryglewski über ihren Wechsel ins Bundeskanzleramt Weser-Kurier.
3. Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
4. Members Parliamentary Left.
5. Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
6. "Minister and senior leadership". Federal Ministry of Finance.
7. Lisa-Maria Röhling (28 August 2019), Ryglewski wechselt ins Finanzministerium: Bremer SPD-Abgeordnete wird parlamentarische Staatssekretärin Weser-Kurier.
8. Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP^{[permanent dead link‍]} Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
9. Maren Schubart (9 July 2024), Bremer SPD-Politikerin kündigt Rückzug aus dem Bundestag an buten un binnen.
10. 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.
11. Foundation Bodies Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
12. Editorial board Archived 16 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine spw – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft’'.

External links

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