Garrelt Duin

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Garrelt Duin (born 2 April 1968) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was born in Leer, Lower Saxony, and studied law and Protestant theology at the universities of Bielefeld and Göttingen from 1987 to 1995. He completed his legal exams in 1995 and 1998. Duin served in the European Parliament from 2000 to 2005, working on regional policy, transport and tourism, and on industry, research and energy.

In 2005 he was elected to the German Bundestag, representing Aurich-Emden, and served on the Economic Affairs and Technology Committee. He held SPD leadership roles, including chairman of the SPD in Lower Saxony from 2005 to 2010, and he led the party’s working group on economic affairs and technology (2009–2012). He left the Bundestag in June 2012 to become Minister for Economics, Energy, Industry and Commerce in North Rhine-Westphalia, serving in the government of Hannelore Kraft until 2017.

Duin participated in the SPD’s economic policy discussions during the 2013 Grand Coalition negotiations and was a member of Germany’s National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste from 2014 to 2016. In February 2018, he joined ThyssenKrupp, where he works in the Industrial Solutions division in Dortmund.