Curriculum Vitae

Frank Schwabe, Member of the German Parliament

Parliament

Member of the German Bundestag since 2005 with the Social Democratic Party (SPD)

International involvement

Since 2012 member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
2014–2022 substitute chair of the German delegation of PACE
2018 chair of the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights of PACE
Since 2018 chair of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group of the Council of Europe (PACE)
2022–2025 chair of the German delegation of PACE
since 2006 continuous participation in the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Member of the „Climate and Energy“ Network of the Party of European Socialists (PES)

Political involvement

Since 2025 Viceminister at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
2022–2025 Commissioner for Freedom of Religion or Belief of the Federal Government
Active in local environmental and climate initiatives since 1990
Involved in human rights initiatives and local Eine-Welt-Gruppen - especially FIAN Marl (a local group of the Food First Information and Action Network) and the catholic Eine-Welt-Gruppe in Recklinghausen
Joined the SPD in 1991
Member of BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany)
Member of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE)

Foreign languages