Christiane Benner
German sociologist and trade Union Official / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christiane Benner (born February 9, 1968, in Aachen) is a German sociologist and trade union official. In 2023, she became the first woman to hold the post of First Chairwoman of Europe's largest industrial union, IG Metall (the German metalworkers union). After being elected to the union leadership in 2015, she is the first woman to do so in the union's 125-year history.[1][2]