Shortly after Valentine’s Day the time had come: Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented the capital with his new happiness in love. Everyone should see it now!
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The couple came hand in hand to the opening of the Berlinale and watched the premiere of the film “Small Things Like These”. An appearance not through the back door, but on the red carpet! The photographers and cameramen couldn’t miss the motif.
Health Minister private: He complained for a long time about his single life
In 2022, Lauterbach complained that it was “futile” when it came to his love life. He has “no time” and “no chances” for dating apps. As early as 2021, he pitied his private life in an interview with the magazine “Bunte”. Unfortunately, there is “no question” that his greater popularity since the Corona crisis has helped him with women. “But I actually don’t want to stay single for the rest of my life,” Lauterbach said at the time.
Lauterbach in love: Who is his new partner?
Now the turning point: Lauterbach is newly in love, he has a partner again! The relationship became known at the beginning of 2024. The 60-year-old has found new private happiness with Elisabeth Niejahr (58). Niejahr is a well-known business journalist and has often appeared on TV talk shows in recent years – even with Lauterbach’s favorite host Markus Lanz. Between 2013 and 2019 she was a regular on the monthly rbb talk show “Thadeusz and the Observers”.
Karl Lauterbach with his new partner Elisabeth Niejahr. Photo: IMAGO/APress International
Her career began at “Spiegel”, later she moved to “Zeit” and finally as chief reporter to “Wirtschaftswoche”. She also wrote several books. Since 2020, Niejahr, who has a daughter, has been managing director of the “Strengthening Democracy” department of the non-profit Hertie Foundation. Lauterbach has a real career woman at his side who is also well connected in political Berlin.
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Will the new friend Lauterbach be able to give political impetus again? The cannabis legalization law is currently stuck. Even more important: The hospital reform is supposed to be the SPD minister’s masterpiece in this legislative period, but the dismantling of clinics is causing discontent in the countryside.