Ute Vogt took which position from Oct 2017 to 2019?
Ute Vogt Ute Vogt ( born 3 October 1964 ) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) who has been serving as a member of the from 1994 until 2005 and since 2009 . Early life and education . Vogt was born in 1964 in Heidelberg . She studied at Heidelberg University and at the German University of Administrative Sciences , Speyer , and became a lawyer . Political career . Vogt joined the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) in 1984 and became a city councillor in Wiesloch from 1989 until 1994 . Vogt was first elected to the in 1994 , representing Pforzheim . In parliament , she was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs ( 1994-2001 ) and the Committee on Postal Services and Telecommunications ( 1998-2001 ) . From 1999 until 2001 , she also served on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice , namely the Federal Court of Justice ( BGH ) , the Federal Administrative Court ( BVerwG ) , the Federal Fiscal Court ( BFH ) , the Federal Labour Court ( BAG ) , and the Federal Social Court ( BSG ) . In 2000 , she became the first woman to chair the Committee on Internal Affairs . On the state level , Vogt was elected chairwoman of the SPD in Baden-Württemberg in 1999 , leading the party’s campaign for the 2001 state elections and – unsuccessfully – attempting to unseat incumbent Minister-President Erwin Teufel . From 2001 until 2005 elections , Vogt served alongside Fritz Rudolf Körper as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under minister Otto Schily in the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder . Also on the national level , Vogt was one of the deputy chairs of the SPD from 2003 until 2007 , under the leadership of successive chairmen Schröder ( 2003-2004 ) , Franz Müntefering ( 2004-2005 ) , Matthias Platzeck ( 2005-2006 ) and Kurt Beck ( 2006-2007 ) . When the Schröder government was voted out of office in 2005 , Vogt returned to state politics and became her party’s candidate to challenge Minister-President Günther Oettinger in Baden-Württemberg’s 2006 elections . From 2006 until 2008 , she chaired her parliamentary group in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg . She resigned as the party’s chairwoman in the state after disappointing results in the 2009 German federal election and was replaced by Nils Schmid . Vogt returned to the in the 2009 elections , this time representing Stuttgart . In parliament , she joined the Committee on the Environment , Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety as well as a parliamentary inquiry into the Gorleben salt dome , a controversial proposed deep geological repository for radioactive waste . In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats ( CDU together with the Bavarian CSU ) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections , Vogt led the SPD delegation in the working group on the environment and agriculture ; her co-chair from the Christian Democrats was Katherina Reiche . She subsequently served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Thomas Oppermann from 2013 until 2017 . In this capacity , from 2015 until 2016 , she was part of a government-appointed commission tasked with recommending how to safeguard the funding of fulfilling Germanys exit from nuclear energy , under the leadership of co-chairs Ole von Beust , Matthias Platzeck and Jürgen Trittin . Between 2018 and 2019 , Vogt was a member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development . Since 2019 , she has been a member on the Committee on Internal Affairs again . Other activities . - Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , Member of the Political Advisory Board ( since 2018 ) - German Committee for UNICEF , Member of the Board ( since 2018 ) - German Foundation for World Population ( DSW ) , Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board - German Life Saving Association ( DLRG ) , Member - Eurosolar , Member - German United Services Trade Union ( ver.di ) , Membe