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{{Short description|German politician (SPD), President of the Bundestag}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Bärbel Bas
| honorific-suffix    = [[Member of the German Bundestag|MdB]]
| image               = Empfang für Bundestagspräsidentin Bärbel Bas im Kölner Rathaus-5456.jpg
| office              = [[President of the Bundestag]]
| term_start          = 26 October 2021
| term_end            = 
| predecessor         = [[Wolfgang Schäuble]]
| successor           = 
| office1             = Deputy Leader of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] in the [[Bundestag]]
| term_start1         = 24 September 2019
| term_end1           = 26 September 2021
| leader1             = [[Rolf Mützenich]]
| predecessor1        = [[Karl Lauterbach]]
| successor1          = [[Dagmar Schmidt]]
| office2             = Member of the [[Bundestag]]
| term_start2         = 27 October 2009
| term_end2           = 
| predecessor2        = [[Petra Weis]]
| successor2          = 
| constituency2       = [[Duisburg I]]
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=y|1968|5|3}}
| birth_place         = [[Duisburg]], [[West Germany]]
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Siegfried Ambrosius|2015|2020|end=d}}
| caption             = Bas in 2023
}}
'''Bärbel Bas''' ({{IPA|de|bɛʁbl̩ baːs}}; born 3 May 1968) is a German politician of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]] (SPD) who has been serving as the 14th [[president of the Bundestag]] since 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/bundestagswahl-bundestag-praesidentin-bas-100.html | title=SPD-Politikerin Bärbel Bas zur Bundestagspräsidentin gewählt }}</ref> She has been a [[Member of the German Bundestag|member]] of the German [[Bundestag]] since the federal election in 2009. She served as the deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman [[Rolf Mützenich]] from 2019 to 2021.<ref name="rp-online.de">Jan Drebes (9 September 2019), [https://rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/berlin/baerbel-bas-soll-karl-lauterbach-als-spd-fraktionsvize-nachfolgen_aid-45701041 Duisburgerin Bärbel Bas soll Lauterbach als SPD-Fraktionsvize nachfolgen] ''[[Rheinische Post]]''.</ref>

==Early life and career==
Bas was born in the Walsum district of [[Duisburg]]. In 1984, she obtained her secondary school diploma. From 1985 to 1987 she served an apprenticeship as an office assistant at the [[Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft]] (DVG), where she worked from 1987 to 2001 as a clerk, and later moved to the company's own health insurance. From 1986 to 1988 she was a representative of youth and trainees at DVG and from 1988 to 1998 member of the [[works council]] and employee representative on the supervisory board of DVG.<ref name="Bärbel Bas">[https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/B/bas_baerbel/518186 Bärbel Bas, SPD], Bundestag.de</ref>

From 1994 to 1997, Bas completed a vocational training as a social security specialist. That was followed, in 2000–2002, by an in-service training as a health insurance business administrator and the instructor diploma 2003. From 2002 to 2006 she was a deputy board member of the health insurance fund EVS. From 2005 to 2007, she completed further training as a human resources economist (VWA) at the Administrative and Business Academy Essen. Subsequently, Bas served as Head of the Department of Personnel Services at the BKK Futur from 2007 to 2009.<ref name="Bärbel Bas"/>

==Political career==
In October 1988, Bas joined the SPD. A year later she became a member of the [[Jusos]] sub-district board Duisburg, of which she was chairwoman from 1990 to 1998. Since then she has been a member of the subdistrict board of the Duisburg SPD. She served as deputy chairwoman since 2006. Since 2004, she has been a member of the Regional Council [[Lower Rhine region|Niederrhein]], since 2009 a member of the RuhrSPD and since 2010 chairwoman of the SPD state party council in [[North Rhine-Westphalia]].

From 1994 to 2002 Bärbel Bas was a member of the City Council of Duisburg.

===Member of Parliament: 2009–present===
[[File:Bärbel Bas 2010.jpg|thumb|Bas in 2010]]
In the [[2009 German federal election|2009 federal election]], Bas was elected in the constituency of [[Duisburg I]] for the SPD as an MP in the [[List of members of the 17th Bundestag|17th German Bundestag]]. In the [[2013 German federal election|2013 federal election]] and in the [[2017 German federal election|2017 federal election]], she was able to defend her direct mandate.<ref name="Bärbel Bas"/> In the 17th Bundestag she was a full member of the Committee on Health, to which she continued to be a deputy member since in the 18th Bundestag. Since 2014, she has been a member of the parliament's [[Council of Elders of the Bundestag (Germany)|Council of Elders]], which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. She is also a deputy member of the [[Gemeinsamer Ausschuss]] (''Joint Committee'') of the [[Bundesrat of Germany|Bundesrat]] and Bundestag.

Within her parliamentary group, Bas belongs to the left party wing of the SPD, the Parliamentary Left (''[[Parlamentarische Linke]]'').<ref>[https://www.parlamentarische-linke.de/unsere-mitglieder/ Mitglieder der Parlamentarischen Linken], parlamentarische-linke.de</ref> From December 2013 until 2017, she served as Parliamentary Director (Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer, [[Chief whip]]) of the SPD parliamentary group. Bas later served as the group´s deputy chairwoman under the leadership of chairman [[Rolf Mützenich]] from 2019 until 2021.<ref name="rp-online.de"/>

In addition to her committee assignments, Bas is a member of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of Central America.

===President of the Bundestag: 2021–present===
On 26 October 2021, Bas was elected as the 14th [[President of the Bundestag]] for the 20th Bundestag, with 576 votes for, 90 against, and 58 abstentions. Bas is the third female Bundestag president, after [[Annemarie Renger]] ([[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]]) and [[Rita Süssmuth]] ([[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bas-bundestag-101.html | title=Bundestag }}</ref>

==Other activities==
===Corporate boards===
* Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2015)
* Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftsförderung Duisburg mbH, Member of the Supervisory Board (until 2013)
* Stadtwerke Duisburg AG, Member of the Supervisory Board (until 2013)

===Non-profit organizations===
* Humanitarian Aid Foundation for Persons infected with HIV through Blood Products (HIV Foundation), Member of the Board
* [[ver.di|German United Services Trade Union]] (ver.di), Member
* [[MSV Duisburg]], Member

==Recognition==
* Grand Cross 1st class of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]<ref name="Der Bundespräsident p650">{{cite web | title=Rede: Ordensverleihung an Bärbel Bas | website=[[Der Bundespräsident]] | url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/Reden/2023/09/230922-OV-Baerbel-Bas.html | language=de | access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref>

===Foreign honors===
* {{flagu|Spain}}:
**[[File:ESP Isabella Catholic Order GC.svg|50px]] Grand Cross of the [[Order of Isabella the Catholic]] (11 October 2022)<ref>[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2022/10/12/pdfs/BOE-A-2022-16656.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=El Gobierno español condecora al presidente y al canciller de Alemania |trans-title=The Spanish government honors the president and Chancellor of Germany|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/agencias/2022/10/11/el-gobierno-espanol-condecora-al-presidente-y-al-canciller-de-alemania/ |access-date=24 October 2022 |work=[[Infobae]] |date=11 October 2022|language=es}}</ref>
* {{flagu|Ukraine}}:
**[[File:Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise 1st 2nd and 3rd Class of Ukraine.png|50x50px]] Member 2nd Class of the [[Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise]] (21 October 2022)<ref>{{Cite web|date=21 October 2022 |title=УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №734/2022|url=https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/7342022-44529|language=uk}}</ref>

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