Carola Veit
Carola Alexandra Veit is a German politician who has been president of the Hamburg Parliament since 23 March 2011.Political career
Having grown up in Hamburg's Billstedt district, Veit trained as a paralegal then a lawyer.Political career
Veit became a member of the SPD in 1991 and a member of the Hamburg Mitte District Board in 2000.
Since 2004, Veit has been a member of the Hamburg Parliament for the SPD. She has since been serving on the Committee on Families, Children and Youth. In the 20th session of the parliament she was elected President of the Hamburg Parliament. She was re-elected for a further term, 2015–2020, in the 21st session.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the 2013 German elections, Veit was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on integration and migration, led by Maria Böhmer and Aydan Özoğuz.
In 2015, Veit was appointed Vice Chairman of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference. In 2016 she was appointed President of the BSPC. She was a SPD delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.Other activities
Veit is married to an architect. The couple has three children and lives in Hamburg's Spadenland district.
