Niels Annen
German politician (SPD)
Niels Annen (born 6 April 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since May 2025, he has been serving as a State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). From December 2021 until May 2025, he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the same ministry. Prior to that, from March 2018 to December 2021, he served as Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Niels Annen was elected to the German Bundestag four times, representing the constituency of Hamburg-Eimsbüttel from 2005 to 2009, and again from 2013 to 2025. After his first term in the Bundestag Annen was a Senior Transatlantic Resident at the German Marshall Fund in Washington between 2010 and 2011. From 2011 until 2013 he worked for the department for International Policy Analysis of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. Annen has served on the executive board of the SPD since 2003 after being chairman of the Young Socialists, the youth organization of the SPD, from 2001 to 2004.
Early life and education
Born to a works council member of Lufthansa, Annen graduated from high school in 1992.
In 2009, Annen obtained a bachelor's degree in history from the Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis on the resettlement of Baltic Germans during World War 2.
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