Sabine Dittmar
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1964-09-15) 15 September 1964
Schweinfurt, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Würzburg

Sabine Dittmar (born 15 September 1964) is a German physician and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from the state of Bavaria who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013.[1]

In addition to her parliamentary work, Dittmar has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[2]

Medical career

From 1995 until 2010, Dittmar and her husband operated a private practice in Maßbach. Shortly after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Dittmar volunteered at a testing station in her constituency.[3]

Political career

Career in state politics

From 2008 until 2013, Dittmar served as a member of the State Parliament of Bavaria, where she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson for consumer protection.

Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present

Dittmar became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Bad Kissingen district.[4] She is a member of the Committee on Health and the Committee on Tourism.[5][6] In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on public health insurance and pharmacies.[7] Since 2018, she has been serving as her group's spokesperson on health policy.

Within her parliamentary group, Dittmar has been part of working groups on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany (since 2021) and health (since 2014).[8]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ "Sabine Dittmar | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Sabine Dittmar wird Staatssekretärin im Gesundheitsministerium, BR 24
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Otto (8 December 2020), Sabine Dittmar: "Als Ärztin hätte ich nie so entschieden wie die Ministerpräsidenten" Die Zeit.
  4. ↑ "Sabine Dittmar, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "German Bundestag - Health". German Bundestag. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "German Bundestag - Tourism". German Bundestag. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Isolde Krapf (29 January 2014), Sabine Dittmar erneut berufen Main-Post
  8. ↑ Sabine Dittmar SPD Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag.
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