Saskia Esken
Saskia Esken | |
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Esken in 2025 | |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2019 | |
| Deputy | |
| General Secretary | |
| Preceded by | Andrea Nahles |
| Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Constituency | At-large |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Saskia Christina Hofer 28 August 1961 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany |
| Political party | SPD (since 1990) |
| Spouse |
Roland Esken
(m. 1993) |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Unskilled laborer, Software developer, Politician |
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Saskia Christina Esken (née Hofer; born 28 August 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as co-leader of the party since being elected in December 2019 (alongside Norbert Walter-Borjans) and re-elected in December 2021 (alongside Lars Klingbeil). She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013 and has worked in the IT sector for less than four years in the early 1990s.