Olaf Lies

Olaf Lies (born 8 May 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In May 2025 he was elected as Minister-President of the federal state of Lower Saxony.^[1]

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Olaf Lies MdL
Lies in 2012

Minister-President of Lower Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2025
Preceded by	Stephan Weil
Minister for Economic Affairs, Housing, Transport and Digitalization Lower Saxony
In office 8 November 2022 – 20 May 2025
Preceded by	Bernd Althusmann
Minister for Environment, Energy, Building, and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony
In office 22 November 2017 – 8 November 2022
Preceded by	Stefan Wenzel
Succeeded by	Christian Meyer
Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport of Lower Saxony
In office 19 February 2013 – 22 November 2017
Preceded by	Jörg Bode
Succeeded by	Bernd Althusmann
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Saxony
In office 29 May 2010 – 20 January 2012
Preceded by	Garrelt Duin
Succeeded by	Stephan Weil
Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for Friesland
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 January 2008

Personal details
Born	(1967-05-08) 8 May 1967 (age 58) Wilhelmshaven, West Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany

Political career

Lies joined the Social Democratic Party in 2002. In the 2008 state elections he became member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony. He was leader of his party in Lower Saxony from 2010^[2] to 2012.^[3]

Minister-President Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony appointed Lies to the position of State Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport in 2013 and later to State Minister for Environment, Energy, Building, and Climate Protection in his cabinet.^[4]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Lies was part of the working group on energy, climate protection and the environment, led by Armin Laschet, Georg Nüßlein and Barbara Hendricks.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Lies was part of his party's delegation in the working group on agriculture and nutrition, co-chaired by Till Backhaus, Renate Künast and Carina Konrad.^[5]

Lies was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.^[6]

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Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Advisory Board

Corporate boards

Meyer Werft, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2024)^[7]
Deutsche Messe, Member of the Supervisory Board^[8]
Volkswagen Group, Member of the supervisory board (since 2013)^[9]

Non-profit organizations

Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)^[10]
German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018)^[11]

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Political career

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Corporate boards

Non-profit organizations

References

External links

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