Ties Rabe

Ties Rabe (born 14 November 1960) is a German teacher and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

After graduating from Wentorf grammar school in 1979 and his civil service in the Bethesda Hospital in Bergedorf, Hamburg, from 1981 to 1989, he trained as a teacher of religion, German language and history.

[4] Since 2015, he has been acting as coordinator of the SPD-governed federal states for education and science and co-opted member of the executive committee of the Kultusministerkonferenz.

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Rabe was part of the working group on education policy, led by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Stefan Müller and Hubertus Heil.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) on the national level following the 2021 German elections, Rabe was part of his party's delegation in the working group on education policy, co-chaired by Andreas Stoch, Felix Banaszak and Jens Brandenburg.