According to media reports, Thomas Oppermann died unexpectedly. The Bundestag Vice President and SPD politician was 66 years old.
The SPD politician and Bundestag Vice President Thomas Oppermann is dead. He died at the age of 66 after suddenly collapsing while filming with ZDF, as reported by ntv and RTL. Nothing is known about the exact circumstances of death.
Via Twitter Hubertus Heil (47), Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, responded to the death report: "The news of the sudden death of my colleague and comrade Thomas Oppermann fills me with deep sorrow. Thomas has earned his country and social democracy with passion and understanding made. My thoughts are with his family. "
Born in 1954 in Warendorf (Münsterland), Oppermann has held the office of Vice President of the German Bundestag since 2017. From 2013 to 2017 he was the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Only in August of this year had Oppermann announced that he no longer wanted to run for the federal election in 2021. Oppermann leaves behind four children, three daughters and one son.