Ingo Schäfer (born 20 October 1965) is a German politician for the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together wi ...

, trade unionist, and was from 2021 to 2025 member of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...

, the federal parliament.

Life and politics

Schäfer was born 1965 in the West German town of

Solingen Solingen (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr. After Wuppertal, it is the second-largest city in the Bergisches Land, and a member of ...

. In his youth he worked alongside his father, who was himself a member of the SPD. and was elected directly to the Bundestag in 2021. In February 2025, Schäfer lost his seat in Bundestag for district

Solingen – Remscheid – Wuppertal II Solingen – Remscheid – Wuppertal II is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as c ...

against

Jürgen Hardt Jürgen Hardt (born 30 May 1963) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as a member of the Bundestag since 2009. Early life and career After obtaining Abitur 1982 in K� ...

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Living people 1965 births People from Solingen Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 {{Germany-SPD-politician-stub