Wolfgang Schmidt

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Wolfgang Schmidt

Porträtbild von Wolfgang Schmidt.

Wolfgang Schmidt is acting Head of the Federal Chancellery and acting Federal Minister for Special Tasks. 

(Photo: Federal Government/Steffen Kugler)

CV

  • Born on 23 September 1970 in Hamburg.

  • since 1989
    Member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

  • 1990
    Abitur (university entrance qualification) in Hamburg

  • 1991 to 1997
    Studied law in Hamburg and Bilbao/Spain, first state examination in law

  • 1997 to 2000
    Research associate at the University of Hamburg

  • 2000 to 2002
    Legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, second state examination in law

  • 2002 to 2005
    Personal assistant, then office manager to the Secretary General of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)

  • 2005 to 2007
    Office manager of the First Parliamentary Secretary of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag

  • 2007 to 2009
    Head of the Minister’s Office and Head of the Management and Planning Unit at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

  • 2010 to 2011
    Director of the German branch of the International Labour Organization (ILO)

  • 2011 to 2018
    State Councillor (Secretary of State) and Plenipotentiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federation, to the European Union and for Foreign Affairs

  • 2014 to 2015
    Chair of the Conference of European Ministers (EMC)

  • 2015 to 2018
    Member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR)

  • 2018 to 2021
    Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Finance

  • since December 2021 to 25 March 2025
    Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks

  • since 25 March 2025
    Acting Head of the Federal Chancellery and acting Federal Minister for Special Tasks

Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks

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