Johanna Uekermann

Johanna Uekermann (born 18 September 1987 in Straubing) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Since December 2013 she is chairwoman of the Young Socialists in the SPD (Jusos).

She was born in 1987 in the bavarian city of Straubing. She is the daughter of two social-democratic teachers and grow up in the near Mitterfels.

With the age of 14 she joined the Jusos. In 2009 she was elected as vice-chairwoman of the bavarian Jusos, in 2011 as vice-chairwoman of the German Jusos. In 2013 she ran for the Bundestag elections and reached 17.6 percent in the electoral district of Straubing against the CSU candidate Alois Rainer. At the German congress of the Jusos on 6 December 2013 in Nuremberg she was elected as chairwoman of the German Jusos with 207 of 296 votes. In the local elections on 16 March 2014 she was elected into the district council of Straubing-Bogen. In 2015 she was re-elected as chairwoman of the Jusos for two more years with 72.3 percent.