Minister of State Reem Alabali-Radovan (SPD) is to become the Federal Government's first commissioner for anti-racism.
Her press office announced on Wednesday that she would perform the task in personal union with her position as Minister of State with the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration.
Your appointment by the federal cabinet should take place this Wednesday.
Alabali-Radovan, 31, has been the federal government's integration commissioner since December.
In 2021 she entered the Bundestag with a direct mandate.
Alabali-Radovan was born in Moscow in 1990 to Iraqi parents.
In 1996 she came to Mecklenburg-West Pomerania with her family.
After graduating from high school in Schwerin, she studied political science at the Freie Universität Berlin, but returned to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2015.
In the meantime, she worked for the country's immigration authorities in the initial reception center for refugees where she herself had been admitted as a child.
In 2020 she became the integration officer for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the racist attack in Hanau on February 19, Alabali-Radovan said in Berlin last Friday: "The federal government will invest more than ever in prevention and political education." Those affected by racism will be "better protected" and supported .
"We want to set up a nationwide anti-racism advice service for this purpose," she announced.