Uwe Schmidt (politician)

Uwe Schmidt
MdB
Uwe Schmidt MdB
	Schmidt in 2021
Member of the Bundestag; for Bremen II – Bremerhaven;
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 24 October 2017
Preceded by	Uwe Beckmeyer
Member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen; for Bremerhaven;
	In office; 8 June 2015 – 31 October 2017
Preceded by	Multi-member district
Succeeded by	Frank Schildt
Personal details
Born	14 February 1966 (age 60); Bremerhaven, West Germany
Party	Social Democratic
Children	1

Uwe Schmidt (born 14 February 1966) is a German stevedore and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bremen since 2017.

Political career

From 2015 until 2017, Schmidt served as a member of the State Parliament of Bremen.

Schmidt became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.^[1] In parliament, he is a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.^[2]^[3]

Since 2022, Schmidt has been leading the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from Northern Germany.^[4]