Carsten Schneider

Carsten Schneider
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Carsten Schneider MdB
	Carsten Schneider (2021)
Minister of State for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 8 December 2021
Chancellor	Olaf Scholz
Preceded by	Marco Wanderwitz (as Parliamentary State Secretary for the New States)
Chief Whip of the SPD Group in the Bundestag
	In office; 24 October 2017 – 8 December 2021
Leader	Rolf Mützenich
Preceded by	Christine Lambrecht
Succeeded by	Katja Mast
Member of the Bundestag ; for Thuringia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 October 1998
Preceded by	Norbert Otto
Constituency	Erfurt (1998–2005); Erfurt – Weimar – Weimarer Land II (2005–2009); Social Democratic List (2009–present);
Personal details
Born	23 January 1976; Erfurt, East Germany
Political party	SPD

Carsten Schneider (born 23 January 1976) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 1998. Since 2021, he has also been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet.

From 2017 until 2021, Schneider was the First Secretary of his party's parliamentary group, in this position assisting the group's successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017–2019) and Rolf Mützenich (2019–2021).

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