Andrea Nahles
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Andrea Nahles (born 1970) is a German politician. She served as federal chair of the Young Socialists from 1995 to 1999 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998, with an interruption, until 2019. From 2013 to 2017, she was Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. She chaired the SPD parliamentary group from 2017 to 2019 and the SPD from 2018 to 2019, becoming the first woman to hold either position. In 2022, she became chair of the executive board of the Federal Employment Agency. Nahles studied political science, philosophy and German studies in Bonn and has a daughter.