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Hubertus Heil
Hubertus Heil (born 3 November 1972) is a German politician. In 2005 he became general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In September 2009, after immense losses for the SPD during the German federal election, Heil announced his resignation from this position for November. Andrea Nahles succeeded him as general secretary in November 2009. After Katarina Barley's appointment as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, he briefly returned to the office from 2 June to 8
December 2017. On 14 March 2018 Heil was appointed Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the fourth Merkel cabinet.
Political career.
Hubertus Heil joined the SPD in 1988. At first he was active at the Jusos and he was their chairman in the district of Braunschweig from 1991 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 Heil was executive director of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arbeitnehmerfragen", a leftist caucus in the SPD, representing the workers' wing of the party, although he was reputed to belong to the undogmatical