Oliver Kaczmarek (born 8 August 1970) is a German politician of the

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(SPD) who has been serving as a member of the

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from the state of

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since 2009.

Political career

Kaczmarek first became a member of the Bundestag in the

2009 German federal election Federal elections took place on 27 September 2009 to elect the members of the 17th Bundestag (parliament) of Germany. Preliminary results showed that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union ...

, representing the

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district. He was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety before moving to the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment in 2011. Since 2018, he has been serving as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on education and research. In addition to his committee assignments, Kaczmarek is part of the German-Belarusian Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the SPD parliamentary group, he belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under

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following the 2017 federal elections, Kaczmarek was part of the working group on education policy, led by

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, Stefan Müller and

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. Kaczmarek co-chaired the SPD’s national conventions in

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(2018) – during which the party elected

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as its first-ever female leader – and Berlin (2019). 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, he was again part of his party's delegation in the working group on education policy, this time co-chaired by

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and

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Other activities

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, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board (since 2022) *

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, Member of the Senate (since 2021) * Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020) *

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, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2014) * German-Belarusian Society, Member of the Board * ''spw – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft'', Member of the Editorial Board *

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, Member of the Board of Trustees *

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

Political positions

In the SPD’s 2019 leadership election, Kaczmarek supported

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and

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.Philipp May (10 August 2020)
Kaczmarek (SPD) zu Scholz-Kandidatur: „Er würde die Zustimmung der SPD-Mitglieder bekommen“
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