Marja-Liisa Völlers Explained

Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:23 November 2017
Predecessor:Carola Reimann
Birth Date:1984 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Bückeburg, West Germany
Party:SPD
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Bielefeld

Marja-Liisa Völlers (born 28 September 1984) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2017.[1]

Political career

In the 2017 German federal election, Völlers stood in the SPD constituency of Nienburg II – Schaumburg. She lost to CDU candidate Maik Beermann.

Völlers became a member of the Bundestag in 2017 when she succeeded Carola Reimann who had resigned.[2] She is a member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment,[3] [4] where she serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on digitization and inclusion. Following the 2021 elections, she also joined the Defence Committee and the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD.[5]

In addition to her committee assignments, Völlers has been a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2022, where she is part of the Defence and Security Committee.[6]

Within her parliamentary group, Völlers has been serving as one of the two speakers of the Seeheim Circle (alongside Dirk Wiese) since 2022.[7]

Other activities

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marja-Liisa Völlers Abgeordnetenwatch. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de. de. 2020-03-21.
  2. Web site: Marja-Liisa Völlers, MdB. 2017-11-23. SPD-Bundestagsfraktion. de. 2020-03-21.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Health. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-21.
  4. Web site: German Bundestag - Education, Research and Technology Assessment. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-21.
  5. https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw12-de-parl-kontrollgremium-885558 Bundestag setzt Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium ein
  6. https://www.nato-pa.int/members/vollers-marja-liisa Marja-Liisa Völlers
  7. Veit Medick and Christian Teevs (15 December 2022), Zulauf für konservativen Flügel: In der SPD kippt die Macht Der Spiegel.