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The Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance Lars Castellucci

04.06.2025 - Article

Since 28 May 2025, Lars Castellucci has been the Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office.

Lars Castellucci, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office
Lars Castellucci, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office © DBT/Stella von Saldern

Curriculum Vitae

May 2025 to present

Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office

2022 to 2025

Executive chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community of the German Bundestag

2018 to 2025

Spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag on churches and religious communities

2018 to 2023

Spokesperson of the migration and integration working group of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

2013 to 2017

Spokesperson of the democracy working group of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag

Since 2013

Member of the German Bundestag

Since 2013 (on leave since May 2019)

Professor of sustainable management, especially integration and diversity management, University of Applied Management Studies, Mannheim

2000 to 2013

Advisor on municipal and regional development

2008

Completed doctorate at the Darmstadt University of Technology

2000 to 2004

Lecturer at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences, labour administration department, Mannheim

1995 to 2000

Studied politics, medieval and modern history and public law, Heidelberg, Mannheim and San Francisco

Born on 24 February 1974 in Heidelberg

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