Edith Sitzmann
Sitzmann in 2016
Landtag of Baden-Württemberg
Assumed office
August 2002
Minister of Finance for Baden-Württemberg
In office
May 2016 – 2021
Preceded byNils Schmid
Succeeded byDanyal Bayaz
Personal details
Born (1963-01-04) January 4, 1963
Regensburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens

Edith Sitzmann (born 4 January 1963, Regensburg) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party served as State Minister of Finance in the second cabinet of Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. She was also a member of the State Parliament, representing the Freiburg II constituency. From 2011 to 2016, she led the Green Party's Group in the State Parliament.

Early life and education

Sitzmann was born on 4 January 1963 in Regensburg. She studied the humanities at the University of Freiburg, University of Regensburg, and Heidelberg University. Sitzmann earned a magister degree in 1989, then began working until 1991 as a tour guide for American exchange students.

Political career

Sitzmann joined the Alliance 90/The Greens party. From 1993 to 2001, she was a personal friend of and adviser to Dieter Salomon, a member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg. From 1994, she also worked as a freelance presenter and consultant for non-profit organizations until 2001, when she started her own business. In that time, Sitzmann also joined the district board of Alliance 90/The Greens from 1993 to 1994, and then the party's state board from 1995 to 1999.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) under the leadership of Kretschmann following the 2016 state elections, Sitzmann led her party’s delegation in the working group on integration.[1]

In May 2016, Sitzmann was appointed State Minister of Finance for Baden-Württemberg. She announced in 2020 that she would not stand for reelection in the 2021 state elections.[2]

Other activities

Corporate boards

  • EnBW, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2017–2021)[3]
  • KfW, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2017–2021)[4]
  • Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2017–2021)[5]

Non-profit organizations

Citations

  1. ↑ Grüne starten in Koalitionsverhandlungen mit der CDU Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg, press release of 6 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Krauß, Bärbel; Rebhan, Christiane (23 January 2020). "Warum Edith Sitzmann und Franz Untersteller sich zurückziehen". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Supervisory Board EnBW.
  4. ↑ Board of Supervisory Directors and its Committees KfW.
  5. ↑ Supervisory Board Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW).
  6. ↑ Edith Sitzmann Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.
  7. ↑ Edith Sitzmann Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.
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