Achim Post
Post in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1959-05-02) 2 May 1959
Rahden, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Bielefeld

Achim Post (born 2 May 1959) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.[1]

Political career

Post became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[2] In parliament, he is a member of the Joint Committee.[3]

From 2015 to 2023, Post led the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest delegation within the party’s parliamentary group.[4] Since 2017, he been serving as one his parliamentary group's chairpersons, under the leadership of successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017–2018) and Rolf Mützenich (since 2018).

In addition to his committee assignments, Post is part of the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Post was part of his party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget, co-chaired by Doris Ahnen, Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr.[5]

Other activities

  • KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (since 2022)[6]
  • Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Achim Post | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Achim Post (Minden), MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag – Main Committee". German Bundestag. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Alexander Graßhoff (3 July 2023), Neue Doppelspitze: Bielefelderin Esdar führt mächtige NRW-Landesgruppe der SPD im Bundestag Neue Westfälische.
  5. ↑ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
  6. ↑ Board of Supervisory Directors and its Committees KfW.
  7. ↑ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of 1 July 2020.
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