Jakob von Weizsäcker
Jakob von Weizsäcker | |
|---|---|
| State Minister of Finance of Saarland | |
| Assumed office 26 April 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Strobel |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 6 January 2019 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 March 1970 Heidelberg, West Germany |
| Political party | German Social Democratic Party EU Party of European Socialists |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Website | jakob |
Jakob von Weizsäcker (born 4 March 1970) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President of the Saarland Anke Rehlinger since the 2022 state elections.
Weizsäcker previously served as head of the Secretariat of the G20 Joint Finance-Health Task Force on Pandemic Preparedness in 2022 and as the chief economist of the German Ministry of Finance under minister Olaf Scholz from 2019 to 2022. Before, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Thuringia, Germany for the 8th European Parliament (2014–2019).