Matthias Miersch

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Matthias Miersch
Miersch in 2022
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
Acting
Assumed office 8 October 2024
Leader	Saskia Esken Lars Klingbeil
Preceded by	Kevin Kühnert
Member of the Bundestag for Hannover-Land II
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 October 2005
Preceded by	Horst Schild
Personal details
Born	(1968-12-19) 19 December 1968 (age 56) Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Political party	SPD (since 1990)
Alma mater	Leibniz University Hannover
Occupation	Criminal defense lawyer Politician

Matthias Miersch (born 19 December 1968) is a German criminal defense lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Member of the Bundestag since the 2005 German federal election, representing the Hannover-Land II district. He focussed on environmental policy.^[1] On 8 October 2024 Miersch was appointed as provisional secretary general of the Social Democratic Party.

Since the Scholz cabinet collapsed on 7 November 2024 (Scholz's dismissed FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner) Miersch is leading the Political campaign before the 2025 German federal election.

Since 2013, Miersch has been a member of the party's executive board under successive chairpersons Sigmar Gabriel (2013-2017), Martin Schulz (2017-2018), Andrea Nahles (2018-2019), Norbert Walter-Borjans (2019–2021), Saskia Esken (since 2019) and Lars Klingbeil (since 2021).