SPD Brandenburg elects new leadership team for 2029 term
The SPD’s Brandenburg state parliamentary group has elected its new leadership team. Delegates gathered in Wittenberge to vote on roles for the rest of the legislative term, which runs until 2029. Björn Lüttmann secured another term as group leader with strong support.
Lüttmann was re-elected as leader with 79.4% of the vote. His position at the top of the SPD faction remains unchanged after this latest ballot.
Several deputies retained their roles. Katja Poschmann continues as deputy leader for education. Wolfgang Roick stays in charge of agriculture, while Melanie Balzer keeps her budget responsibilities. Martina Maxi Schmidt was also confirmed again for infrastructure. New faces joined the leadership team. Annemarie Wolff, Sina Schönbrunn, and Marcel Penquitt were elected as deputy leaders. Meanwhile, Ludwig Scheetz was reappointed as parliamentary manager, winning 85.3% of the vote. Some long-serving members stepped down. Nadine Gräßmel and Sebastian Rüter are no longer deputies. Erik Stohn, a former group leader and SPD secretary general, also left his deputy role.
The SPD faction now has a mix of experienced and new deputies for the coming years. The leadership changes follow a vote that sets the direction until 2029. Lüttmann’s re-election and the arrival of three new deputies mark the key outcomes of the meeting.
Read also:
- American teenagers taking up farming roles previously filled by immigrants, a concept revisited from 1965's labor market shift.
- Weekly affairs in the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
- Landslide claims seven lives, injures six individuals while they work to restore a water channel in the northern region of Pakistan
- Escalating conflict in Sudan has prompted the United Nations to announce a critical gender crisis, highlighting the disproportionate impact of the ongoing violence on women and girls.
