Former Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz wants to give up her post as deputy federal chair of the SPD after more than five years. Her state association - the SPD Brandenburg - announced that Geywitz had already announced internally at an early stage that she would not be running again. The 49-year-old from Potsdam has been deputy SPD party chairwoman since 2019.
Geywitz ran as a team for the party chairmanship in 2019 together with the then Federal Minister of Finance and later Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but both were narrowly defeated by Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans.
The Brandenburg SPD thanked Geywitz. "I would like to thank Klara Geywitz for her strong commitment to the interests of our Brandenburgers and the entire East German SPD on the party executive committee of the federal SPD in recent years," announced Kurt Fischer, the acting SPD General Secretary for Brandenburg. Geywitz was a member of the Brandenburg state parliament from 2004 to 2019 and Secretary General of the SPD state association from 2013 to 2017.
