Erika Nembacker

Erika Nembacker
President of the Federal Republic of Axmanie
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2019
Vice President	Niklas Petersen
Preceded by	Julian Wieselbraun
Leader of the Sozialdemokratische Partei
In office 10 April 2010 – 15 September 2017
Preceded by	Helmuth Scholz
Succeeded by	Stefan Arthur Badermann
Leader of the SDP Majority/Minority group in the Bundestag
In office 12 November 2006 – 21 Febuary 2018
Preceded by	Elias Theobald Becker
Succeeded by	Hannelore Friederike Lorenz
Gewählter Vertreter to the Bundestag
In office 15 July 2002 – 11 June 2019
Constituency	Vorpommern-Garnpfaltz
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
In office 7 November 2004 – 10 April 2009
Leader	Oskar Felix Jansen
Preceded by	Claudia Hauptmeier
Succeeded by	Ingo Walters
Spokesperson of the the Ministerpräsident of Gessenfried
In office 17 November 1994 – 3 September 2000
Personal details
Born	Erika Rynsburger Dietrich 25/4/1962 (age 57) Heidelsbürgen‎,Werfznback
Political party	Social Democratic Party
Spouse	Erwin Michael Nembacker
Children	3
Residence	Kiergelensburg
Alma mater	Wissenschaftsakademie von Gessenfried
Profession	Scientist, Politician

Erika Rynsburger Nembacker (née Dietrich; born 25 April 1962) is a Axmaniean politician serving as the 31st President of the Federal Republic of Axmanie since 2019. She served as the leader of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2008 to 2017. Nembacker was first elected to be Gewählter Vertreter (MP) for Vorpommern-Garnpfaltz in 2001. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a liberal socialist.

Nembacker grew up in Hochfläche and attended Sankt Michaelis Hochschule, Hackerbrucken. After graduating, she headed to Gessenfried to study at the Wissenschaftsakademie von Gessenfried (Science Academy of Gessenfried) were she obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist and state advisor until 1995. Nembacker entered politics in the wake of the 1994 Brömer corruption scandal, and served as the spokesperson for the newly elected Gessenfridian government headed by SDP Ministerpräsident Ulrich Peters in 1994.

She entered national politics in early 2000 with the backing of of poised presidential candidate Ministerpräsident of Gessenfried Ulrich Peters. Later that year, after a hard fought campaign she was nominated to the surprise of many as General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party. In 2001, she was elected to the Bundestag were she increased her influence both inside the SDP and at the national level. In 2006 the SDP Gewählter Vertreters (MP's) nominated nominated her chief of the Majority in the Bundestag. At the 2008 Social Democratic she was nominated Leader of the Sozialdemokratische Partei with a wide margin.

At the 2019 Axmaniean Presidential Elections, she faced incumbent president and favorite Julian Wieselbraun. She won with 50.4% of the votes against 49.6% for her opponent. She was sworn in the 1st of July 2019.

Early life,family and education

Erika Rynsburger Dietrich was born on the 25th of April 1962 at the Kessler Landeskrankenhaus (Kessler state hospital) in the city of Heidelsbürgen in the Lander of Werfznback. Nembacker is the second child of Otto Wilhelm Dietrich (1934-2018) and of Frida Amalie Kühn (born in 1940), her father was a car dealer for Staüborn Autohersteller (SAH),he was promoted to various positions in the company to the point of becoming Regional Director of operations of SAH. Her mother was a teacher's union delegate at the Lander education ministry, she was one of the lead opponent of the education reform attempted by the Ministerpräsident of Werfznback of the time. Erika initially attended the Gneiser Grundschule (Gneiser Primary School), a state school in Gassau, followed by Sankt Michaelis Hochschule, a Roman Catholic independent school in Hackerbrucken, which closed in 1994.

When she was 14, Nembacker won a place at the former Raeder Straße Mädchengymnasium, a state school in Neudersheim. During her time as a pupil, the Werfznback education system was reorganised, and the school became the new Raeder Straße Gesamtschule. At the end of her classical studies in 1981, her excellent grades made her available for a scholarship from the prestigious Wissenschaftsakademie von Gessenfried (Science Academy of Gessenfried) were she studied from 1982 to 1987 and got a PhD in quantum chemistry. During that time, she worked in a fast-food restaurant on Sundays to earn money for a living, and was a "fashion-conscious young woman who from an early age spoke of her ambition to be a influential politician ," according to those who knew her. A university friend, Guido Berger, said: "I cannot remember a time when she did not have political ambitions."

Early career

After her studies, she was recruited by the Gessenfridian interior ministry to be one the state cabinet's five science advisers. She participated in the case study for the Berckheim nuclear power plant and for the Landsback dam. While she was investigating the construction of the dam she wrote a controversial report stressing it's potentially disastrous environmental impact on the Sassen river fish population.The dam was built nevertheless.During her time at the interior ministry she became a close friend of vice-Ministerpräsident and Interior minister Ulrich Peters.

Entry into Politics

The reveal in 1994 of the far reaching Brömer corruption scandal, caused the Quant cabinet to resign and new general elections were called in Gessenfried. After a hard fought and highly controversial campaign the vice-Ministerpräsident of Quant era and favorite Ulrich Peters was elected to the office. During the establishment of the Peters cabinet, Nembacker was chosen as his spokesperson. During her time in office, she became known for her adept dealing with journalists questioning the government policies and involvement in the corruption scandal. This way of dealing with the press earned her the nickname of "Der Schild des Ministerpräsidenten" (The minister-president's shield). In 2000 in the middle of her second tenure as spokesperson, she resigned and engaged in politically militant and charitable activities in what many political experts of the time called a political campaign before the hour. In late 2000, she formed campaign committee and began raising funds for her campaign, in February of 2001 Nembacker officially announced her intention to run for the Volksvertretung