Arne Lietz

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Arne Lietz MEP
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	(1976-06-23) 23 June 1976 (age 48) Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Political party	German Social Democratic Party  European Union Party of European Socialists

Arne Lietz (born 23 July 1976) is a German politician who served Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2014 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.^[1]

Lietz studied History, Politics and Education at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He graduated with a master's degree in History. From 2004–2006 Lietz was the European representative of the American charity Facing History and Ourselves which develops educational material on injustice and prejudice throughout history, with a particular focus on The Holocaust. During his time at the charity he worked in Berlin, Boston and London. He later worked as a parliamentary assistant, a script-writer and a washer-up.

• Member, Committee on Development (2014–2019)
• Member, Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014–2019)
• Member, Delegation for relations with Israel (2014–2019)
• Member, Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2015–2019)

In addition to his committee assignments, Lietz served as a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Western Sahara.^[2]

• Energy Watch Group (EWG), Member^[3]
• German War Graves Commission, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
• Atlantik-Brücke, Member
• Tönissteiner Kreis, Member
• German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member

Lietz lives in Wittenberg.