Olaf Lies
Lower Saxony Minister for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection
Since 2017, he is Lower Saxony’s Minister for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection. Prior to this, Olaf Lies was Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport for five years. Lies lives with his wife and his two daughters in Sande. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Wilhelmshaven.
Stations of his political career:
| Since 11/2017 | Minister for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection |
| 2013 – 2017 | Minister for Economics, Labour and Transport |
| Since 2012 | Vice chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony |
| 2010 – 2012 | Chairman of the SPD Lower Saxony |
| 2010 – 02/2013 | Deputy chairman of the SPD in the federal state parliament Lower Saxony |
| Since 2008 | Member of the federal state parliament of Lower Saxony |
| Since 2006 | Member of the district assembly Friesland |
| 2006 – 2011 | Vice district administrator of Friesland |
| 2005 – 2011 | Member of the SPD regional executive board of Weser-Ems |
| 2005 – 2013 | Chairman of the SPD subdistrict Friesland |
| Since 2002 | Member of the district council Sande |
| 2002 – 2008 | Chairman of the SPD local association Sande |
| January 2002 | Accession to the SPD |
| September 2001 | Independent candidate for the SPD Sande |
