Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter at United Nations (2016)
Parliamentary State Secretary for Interior and Community
Assumed office
8 Dezember 2021
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
MinisterNancy Faeser
Parliamentary State Secretary for Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
In office
17 December 2013  8 December 2021
ChancellorAngela Merkel
MinisterBarbara Hendricks and Svenja Schulze
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1962-10-13) 13 October 1962
Waldshut
NationalityGerman
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Children2
Alma mater
Websitewww.schwarzelühr-sutter.de

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter (born 13 October 1962) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who serves as a member of the German Bundestag, the German federal parliament.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Schwarzelühr-Sutter was Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Angela Merkel's third (from 2013) and fourth (from 2018) cabinet. Since December 2021, has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's first cabinet.