Ute Vogt

Ute Vogt (born 3 October 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2021.

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[5] until 2007,[6] 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.

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.