Katja Pähle
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Katja Pähle | |
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_(cropped).png) Pähle in 2019 | |
| Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Assumed office 26 April 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Katrin Budde |
| Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Assumed office 2015 | |
| Leader | Katrin Budde (−2016) Burkhard Lischka (2016–2020) Juliane Kleemann (2020–) Andreas Schmidt (2020–) |
| Member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Assumed office 20 March 2011 | |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 June 1977 |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Children | 2 |
Katja Pähle (born 27 June 1977) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2016, she has served as chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.[1] She has also been deputy leader of the party's state branch since 2015, and a member of the SPD federal executive since 2017.[2] She was the party's lead candidate for the 2021 Saxony-Anhalt state election.[3]
Pehle grew up in Hettstedt in Mansfelder Land, and graduated from high school in 1996. She studied sociology and psychology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and received her PhD in 2010.
Pähle subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Collaborative Research Center 580 at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. From 2008 to 2011 she worked in the State Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Magdeburg as a personal advisor in the ministerial office.[4]
