Dörte Schall: Minister with heart and a family in focus!

Dörte Schall, who has been Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitization of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate since July 2024, often brings her two daughters aged 13 and 17 to school before perceiving her professional obligations. Like ga.de reported, spite of her ministerial job in Poppelsdorf. Her husband, Jochen Reeh-Schall, has been Bonn's district mayor for four years and was recently presented by the SPD as a candidate for the Mayor's Office.

Before Dörte Schall became a minister, she was a member of the social department for almost ten years and a year director in Mönchengladbach. Before the 2020 election, she was also briefly considered as a candidate for the Mayor's office, but decided against the candidacy. She started her political career in her youth when she entered the SPD in 1996, and she was active with the Jusos in Rhineland-Palatinate and in the Federal Coordination Committee of Juso High School Groups.

educational path and political career

dörte Schall was born on September 13, 1977 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. After graduating from high school in 1997 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium, she studied law at the University of Trier, where she was president of the student parliament from 1999 to 2000. After completing the second state examination, she completed her legal trainee at the Koblenz Higher Regional Court in 2008.

In the result, Schall worked from 2008 to 2015 as the union secretary of IG Bergbau, Chemistry and Energy. She held various important political offices, among others from 2015 to 2024 the management of the Department of Social Affairs, Youth and Health in Mönchengladbach. In addition, from 2023 to 2024 she was a city director and first deputy of the mayor in Mönchengladbach and acted as deputy chairman of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia from 2018 to 2024. Her appointment as Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitization took place on July 10, 2024, where she succeeded Alexander Schweitzer, as wikipedia reported.