Dagmar Schmidt

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Dagmar Schmidt (born 13 March 1973) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2013. Schmidt was born in Gießen to politically active parents, who were SPD members. After her Abitur, she studied history at the University of Gießen. While she was preparing a PhD thesis about the history of the SPD, Schmidt was offered a job in the office of Landtag of Hesse member Andrea Ypsilanti. She continued as Ypsilanti's assistant when Ypsilanti became state SPD leader, and later became an assistant to her successor, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel. Schmidt became a SPD member when she was 16. As a Juso member, she acted as an observer in the 1995–96 South African municipal elections. In the 2009 and 2013 federal elections, Schmidt was the SPD candidate for the Lahn-Dill electoral district, losing out to the CDU candidate each time. However, in 2013, placed sixth on the SPD party list for Hesse, she was elected to the Bundestag. She also became a member of the SPD executive committee.