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Katja Mast

Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

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Date of birth:
4 February 1971
Place of birth:
Offenburg

Education and Professional Life

  • 1977 to 1992 from secondary general school via upper-secondary business school to a university entrance qualification (Abitur), followed by vocational training as a bank clerk
  • 1992 to 1999 Studies of biology, geography and political science at the University of Heidelberg, degree: 1st state examination for teachers
  • 1999 to 2003 Institute for Organisational Communication (IFOK)
  • 2003 to 2005 officer for human resource strategy at Deutsche Bahn AG

Political career

  • Member of the Social Democratic Party since 1994, previously active as a young socialist for many years
  • Since 2005 Member of the German Bundestag
  • 2011 to 2016 Secretary-General of the Social Democrats in Baden-Württemberg
  • 2014 to 2017 Policy spokesperson for labour and social affairs of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
  • 2014 to 2018 Chairwoman of the Baden-Württemberg regional group of the Social Democrats in the Bundestag
  • December 2017 to December 2021 Deputy Chair of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag
  • Since 9 December 2021 First Parliamentary Secretary of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group

Memberships

  • co-opted member of the board of the German Children's Fund
  • Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE)
  • Railways and Transport Union
  • Nature friends Dietlingen
  • Foundation “Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e.V.”
  • Evangelische Familienerholung (Protestant family resorts)
  • German Alpine Club
  • pro familia association for sexuality counselling, sexuality education and family planning
  • PF2 - Pforzheim sponsoring club of women’s shelters
  • non-profit for organic farming in Madagascar (Fölt e.V. Madagascar)
  • Friends of the Herbert-Wehner-Bildungswerk for political adult education
  • Keltern Fruit and Horticulture Society
  • Krankenpflegeverein Keltern in support of caregiving at home
  • Dietlingen Music Society

Patronages

  • KOMPAZ - Pforzheim competence centre for single parents
  • Multi-generation home Mühlacker
  • Victim and Trauma Outpatient Clinic Pforzheim (BIOS-BW e.V.)