Klara Geywitz

Klara Geywitz (; born 18 February 1976) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She served as Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in the Scholz cabinet from 2021 to 2025. She served as member of the Landtag of Brandenburg from 2004 until 2019, and is a Deputy Leader of the SPD since 2019. Among other committee assignments, she served on the Budget Committee from 2009 until 2014. She was always elected in First-past-the-post voting for her electoral district in Potsdam, until she was defeated in the 2019 state election by Greens candidate Marie Schäffer.

From 2008 until 2013, Geywitz served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD in Brandenburg, under the leadership of its chairman Matthias Platzeck. From 2013 until 2017, she was the party's Secretary General, this time under chairman Dietmar Woidke. They were representative of the party establishment. Competing against five other candidate pairs, they narrowly won the first voting round, gaining 22 per cent of the vote. In the final voting round, she and Scholz were defeated winning 45 per cent of the party base, while Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans won with 53 per cent of the vote, drawing support from the youth of the organisation.

At a SPD national convention in 2019, Geywitz was later elected as one of the five deputies of the party's co-chairs Esken and Walter-Borjans. in December 2021, she was re-elected at the SPD national convention .

Since 2020, Geywitz has been working for the Brandenburg Court of Audit.

Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building, 2021–present On 6 December 2021, Geywitz was announced as Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building in the Scholz cabinet.

In October 2023, Geywitz participated in the first joint cabinet retreat of the German and French governments in Hamburg, chaired by Scholz and President Emmanuel Macron.

Other activities Corporate boards Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft (DDVG), Member of the Supervisory Board Non-profit organizations German Poland Institute (DPI), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022) Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, Member of the Board Leo Baeck Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees

Political positions In 2020, following Thomas Oppermann’s death, Geywitz endorsed Dagmar Ziegler as his successor in the office of Vice-President of the German Bundestag.

Personal life Geywitz is married and has three children.