Anette Kramme (born 10 October 1967) is a German lawyer and politician of the

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who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 1998. In addition to her parliamentary work, Kramme has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in the governments of

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s Angela Merkel and

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since 2013.

Political career

Kramme first became a member of the Bundestag in the

1998 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 27 September 1998 to elect the members of the 14th Bundestag. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) emerged as the largest faction in parliament for the first time since 1972, with its leader Gerhard Schröd ...

. In this capacity, she has served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs (1998-2013) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (2002-2005). From 2009 until 2013, she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson on social policy. In the negotiations to form a ''

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'' of the Christian Democrats ( CDU together with the Bavarian

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) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Kramme was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on labor policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen and Andrea Nahles. She has since been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, under successive ministers Andrea Nahles (2013-2017) and Hubertus Heil (since 2017). In the negotiations on a fourth

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under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Kramme was part of the working group on social affairs, this time led by Nahles, Karl-Josef Laumann and

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Other activities

* German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member * IG Metall, Member

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