Wiebke Papenbrock

Wiebke Papenbrock
Member of the Bundestag for Brandenburg
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Personal details
Born	(1979-11-24) 24 November 1979 (age 45) East Berlin, East Germany (now Germany)
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	Humboldt University of Berlin

Wiebke Papenbrock (born 24 November 1979) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.[1]

Early life and career

Papenbrock was born 1979 in East Berlin.[2] In 2018, she received a master's degree in Religion and Culture from the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Early in her career, Papenbrock served as a parliamentary advisor to Ernst Bahr (2006–2009) and later to Sonja Steffen (2009–2016).[3] From 2016 until 2021, she worked for the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government.[4]

Political career

Papenbrock entered the SPD in 2012 and became member of the Bundestag in the 2021 elections, representing the Prignitz – Ostprignitz-Ruppin – Havelland I district.[4]

In parliament, Papenbrock has since been serving on the Budget Committee and its Subcommittee on European Affairs. In this capacity, she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Foreign Office.[5] She is also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

See also

• List of members of the 20th Bundestag

References

1. Siegmar Trenkler (27 September 2021), Was SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Wiebke Papenbrock im Wahlkreis 56 erwartet hat Märkische Oderzeitung.
2. "Wiebke Papenbrock". Archived from the original on 30 May 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
3. Judith Melzer-Voigt (3 August 2021), Bundestagswahl 2021: Wiebke Papenbrock aus Neuruppin will für die SPD in den Bundestag einziehen Märkische Oderzeitung.
4. "Deutscher Bundestag - Wiebke Papenbrock".
5. Beschlussempfehlung des Haushaltsausschusses (8. Ausschuss) zu dem Entwurf eines Gesetzes über die Feststellung des Bundeshaushaltsplans für das Haushaltsjahr 2023 (Haushaltsgesetz 2023) – Drucksache 20/3100 – hier: Einzelplan 05, Geschäftsbereich des Auswärtigen Amts Bundestag, 4 October 2022.