Elvan Korkmaz (born 27 July 1985 in

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) who was a member of the

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from the state of

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from 2017 to 2021.

Political career

Korkmaz became a member of the Bundestag in the

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

. In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Agenda Committee. Korkmaz lost her seat in the

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. In the negotiations to form a so-called

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of the SPD, the

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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,

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and

Andreas Pinkwart Andreas Pinkwart (born 1960) is a German politician and academic who served as State Minister for Economic Affairs, Digitization, Innovation and Energy in the governments of Ministers-President Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-West ...

Life after politics

Since 2022, Korkmaz has been working at public affairs agency Gauly in Berlin.

Other activities

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

Personal life

Korkmaz is of ethnic

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origin.

References

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Bundestag biography
1985 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia Female members of the Bundestag 21st-century German women politicians Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 People from Gütersloh German politicians of Turkish descent Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub