Detlef Scheele

Detlef Scheele (born 30 September 1956) is a German politician (SPD).

[1] From 1985 to 1987 Scheele was a spokesman for former SPD state chairman Ortwin Runde.

In 1995, he moved to the Hamburg Municipal Workers' Employment Agency (Hamburger-Arbeit-Beschäftigungsgesellschaft) as the managing director and served there until his appointment as State Secretary in 2008.

From February 2010 until his appointment to the Senate, Scheele was managing director of the Elbe-Werkstätten and other Hamburg companies offering jobs for people with disabilities.

On March 23, 2011, Scheele was appointed senator and president of the Department of Labor, Social Affairs, Family and Integration by Olaf Scholz, now First Mayor in Hamburg (Senate Scholz I).