Johanna Uekermann


Johanna Uekermann is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. From December 2013 to November 2017, she was chairwoman of the Young Socialists in the SPD and since May 2017 has been the Deputy Leader of the SPD Bayern.

Life and career

Uekermann was born in 1987 in the Bavarian city of Straubing. She is the daughter of two social-democratic teachers and grew up near Mitterfels.
Uekermann joined Jusos when she was 14 years old. In 2009, she was elected as vice-chairwoman of the Bavarian Jusos, and in 2011 as vice-chairwoman of the German Jusos. In 2013, she ran for the Bundestag elections and reached 17.6 percent of the vote in the electoral district of Straubing against the CSU candidate Alois Rainer. At the German congress of the Jusos on 6 December 2013 in Nuremberg, she was elected as chairwoman of the German Jusos with 207 of 296 votes. In the local elections on 16 March 2014, she was elected into the district council of Straubing-Bogen. In 2015, she was re-elected as chairwoman of the Jusos for two more years with 72.3 percent of the vote.
Since 2017, Uekermann has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Bavaria, under the leadership of Natascha Kohnen. In 2018 she candidates for a seat in the Landtag of Bavaria.

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