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Olaf Scholz's wife: Britta Ernst is SPD minister - they were "the most powerful couple in the north"

2021-07-23T10:34:14.788Z


Olaf Scholz has been married to Britta Ernst for more than 20 years. They are also a team politically: he SPD candidate for chancellor, she SPD state minister.


Olaf Scholz has been married to Britta Ernst for more than 20 years.

They are also a team politically: he SPD candidate for chancellor, she SPD state minister.

Hamburg / Berlin - Olaf Scholz and his wife are among the best-known spouses in the German political landscape.

Both are active for the SPD, she as state minister for education, youth and sport, he as vice chancellor, federal finance minister and top candidate of the SPD in the federal election campaign in 2021.

However, that is not the only thing the two politicians have in common.

Olaf Scholz was born in Osnabrück and Britta Ernst in Hamburg, but both spent their childhood and youth in the Hanseatic city.

And like Olaf Scholz, Britta Ernst also took her first political steps there.

In theory at least, Ernst could become “First Lady” in autumn 2021.

Britta Ernst: Portrait of the wife of the top SPD candidate Olaf Scholz

  • Born on February 23, 1961 in Hamburg

  • Made her Abitur in 1980, and in 1990 her degree in economics

  • Member of the SPD since 1978

  • From 1993 to 2003, first as a consultant, then as a research assistant, member of the urban development authority

  • Politically active for the SPD since 1997

State Minister Britta Ernst: Direct contact between pupils and teachers "cannot be replaced by anything"

Ernst was initially active as the parliamentary managing director of the Hamburg SPD parliamentary group and parliamentary group manager of the SPD parliamentary group - now her political focus is on education, youth and sport. Since 2017, she has been the Brandenburg State Minister responsible for these topics in Cabinet III under Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD). She has also been a deputy member of the Federal Council since 2019.

In the Corona period, which is particularly demanding for families, and the associated distance learning, Ernst moved into focus as the responsible Minister for Education - especially since she will chair the Conference of Ministers of Education in 2021.

She told the German Association of Philologists that although she had good experiences with the students' personal responsibility, there was no substitute for the "direct contact between students and teachers, and that there were enough students who didn't manage their learning processes themselves can control. "

The most powerful couple in the north: For Scholz, love counts

The

mirror

told Scholz 2019 interview that was the most important thing in life, the love for him. “And that's why I'm very happy that my wife and I have had a happy relationship with each other for many decades. That is my priority every day, ”said Scholz. The “most powerful couple in the north”, as the

Hamburger Abendblatt

once called them both at the time as Hamburg's mayor and Kiel minister, has been married since 1998. The long marriage did not produce children, however: for Ernst and Scholz, togetherness seems to be as well as political Careers to be in the foreground.

However, children are not unimportant in the lives of the two SPD politicians.

While Ernst has been putting her political focus on the next generation since 2017, Scholz has long been active as a voluntary representative for the Hamburg initiative “More Time for Children”.

Britta Ernst and Olaf Scholz live in Potsdam at the gates of Berlin.

From there they don't have to go far to their respective places of work.

And maybe Ernst will soon be known not only as the state minister, but also as the wife of the chancellor - if Scholz wins the fight for Angela Merkel's successor and moves into the chancellery in September 2021.

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