Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

Parliamentary State Secretary
German Federal Ministry of Environment, Climate Action, Nature Con-servation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN)

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Climate Protection, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety – for the second time since May 2025 – and also a member of the Bundestag.

From 2018 to 2021, she was an active member of the jury for the Federal Ecodesign Award.

In addition to her work as a parliamentarian and state secretary, she is deputy chair of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg, where she is involved in the ‘Sustainable Mobility’ working group, among other things.

She sees ‘sustainability in social, economic and political action’ as the guiding principle of her political work.