Social Democratic Party of Germany
Centre-left political party in Germany
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| 2025 | The SPD remained in third place in polls, significantly behind the CDU/CSU and the AfD. |
| 2024 | In the European Parliament election, the SPD came in third place, behind the CDU/CSU and the AfD. |
| 2021 | Olaf Scholz concludes his term as German Vice-Chancellor |
| December 2021 | Social Democrat Olaf Scholz became the new chancellor, forming a coalition government with the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP). |
| December 2021 | Saskia Esken and Lars Klingbeil assume joint leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, becoming the first co-leaders in the party's recent history. |
| December 21 2021 | Lars Klingbeil becomes SPD chairman, succeeding the joint leadership of Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken. |
| August 2021 | The SPD surged to first place in polls one month before the German federal election. |
| December 6 2019 | Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken become joint SPD chairpersons. |
| 2018 | Olaf Scholz begins serving as German Vice-Chancellor for the SPD |
| 2018 | Sigmar Gabriel concludes his term as German Vice-Chancellor |
| April 2018 | Simone Lange challenged Andrea Nahles in a rare 'Kampfabstimmung' (leadership contest) for the leadership of the Social Democratic Party, which is an uncommon occurrence in the party's election process. |
| April 22 2018 | Andrea Nahles becomes SPD chairman but resigns on 3 June 2019. |
| February 2018 | SPD members vote to join a coalition with CDU/CSU, with 66.02% voting in favor of the new coalition treaty. |
| March 19 2017 | Martin Schulz becomes SPD chairman but resigns on 13 February 2018. |
| 2013 | Sigmar Gabriel begins serving as German Vice-Chancellor for the SPD |
| 2013 | SPD enters another grand coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU party after federal elections. |
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