Antje Töpfer (born 22 May 1968 in

Ludwigsfelde Ludwigsfelde () is a town in the north of the district Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg. Geography Location The town is located south of Berlin in the district Teltow-Fläming on the plateau of Teltow (region), Teltow. In earlier times, it was par ...

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) is a German politician from

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. From December 2022 to September 2024 she was State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection of the State of

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Career

Töpfer graduated from high school in 1986. From 1986 to 1990 she studied to become a qualified teacher of

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

and

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at the '. From 1990 to 1994 she studied food chemistry at

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. She completed her studies with part A of the state examination. From 1994 to 1995 she completed scientific internships at the Institute of Food Chemistry at the TU Berlin. From 1996 to 1998 she completed a postgraduate course in food chemistry at the TU Berlin. She graduated with a diploma . From 1995 to 1999 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Food Chemistry at the TU Berlin. She received her doctorate there in 1999. From 1998 to 2001 and in 2009 she worked as a freelance research assistant at ''Dorel Verlags GmbH & CoKG''. From 2001 to 2006 she worked as a research assistant at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. From 2006 to 2007 she worked at the

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. From 2010 to 2015 she worked as a research assistant in the office of the Senate of the Federal Research Institutes in the business area of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. From 2015 until her appointment as State Secretary in 2022 she was a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. On 5 December 2022, Töpfer was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg, succeeding . Töpfer is a member of the Havelland district council and chairwoman of the local Green Party group. In the 2024 Brandenburg state election, Töpfer was the Green Party's top candidate together with Benjamin Raschke. They lead the party to defeat suffering an

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losing all their seats.

Personal life

She lives in a

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and has two children.

External links

Antje Töpfer
on the website of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection of the State of Brandenburg.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Töpfer, Antje Living people 1968 births People from Ludwigsfelde 21st-century German politicians 21st-century German women politicians Alliance 90/The Greens politicians Food chemists Members of the Landtag of Brandenburg Women government ministers of Germany Technische Universität Berlin alumni