Maria Flachsbarth

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Maria Flachsbarth (2016)

Mary Frances Flachsbarth (* 2. June 1963 as Maria Franziska Füßmann in Luenen ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and vet . She is a member of the German Bundestag and since March 2018 Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1982 at the Nepomucenum grammar school in Rietberg , Flachsbarth completed a degree in veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover and, from 1987 to 1989, a combined postgraduate and doctoral degree. In 1990 she received her doctorate here as a Dr. med. vet. with the work “Investigations into the functional morphology of the anal sac and its glands in the domestic cat Felis silvestris f. catus " . She then worked as a research assistant at the Anatomical Institute of the Veterinary University (TiHo) Hanover until 1993. After parental leave, she returned to TiHo Hanover in 1997 as the Rector's assistant . In April 2002 she took over the management of the press office. Since 2011 she has been President of the Catholic German Women's Association and a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), where she was elected as ZdK representative in the "Joint Conference" of the German Bishops' Conference and ZdK on November 25, 2017 .

She is married and has two sons. Flachsbarth is a Roman Catholic denomination.

Political party

Maria Flachsbarth (2019)

Flachsbarth joined the Junge Union in 1980 and only became a member of the CDU eleven years later, in 1991 . After she was a deputy chairwoman of the board of the CDU district association Hannover-Land from 1996 to 2000 , she was chairwoman of the district association from October 2002 to November 2008. She has also been a member of the CDU regional executive committee in Lower Saxony since 2004 and has been deputy CDU regional chairwoman since September 2006. Since 2007 she has been chairwoman of the CDU district association in Hanover . In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2005 , she was designated as a minister in the CDU's shadow cabinet.

MPs

She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 . She has been a member of the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group since December 15, 2009 . Between 2009 and 2013 she was the representative for churches and religious communities of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Between 2002 and 2013 she was a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and, in the 17th German Bundestag, she was also the chairwoman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the Gorleben nuclear waste storage facility . From December 17, 2013, she was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture in the Merkel III cabinet . Flachsbarth has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the Merkel IV cabinet since March 2018.

Maria Flachsbarth has always entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list. In 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 it lost significantly (see Bundestag constituency Hannover-Land II ) against Matthias Miersch ( SPD ) the constituency Hannover Land II .

In May 2020, Maria Flachsbarth announced that she would not run again for the 2021 federal election. Flachsbarth wanted a woman to succeed her constituency. However, she could not prevail, because her successor is aiming for the federal chairman of the Junge Union , Tilman Kuban .

Web links

Commons : Maria Flachsbarth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dr. Maria Flachsbarth. In: German Bundestag. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ CDU member of the Bundestag Dr. Maria Flachsbarth will not run again. In: AltkreisBlitz. May 12, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tilman Kuban announces candidacy for a Bundestag mandate. In: HAZ. May 22, 2020, accessed May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Flachsbarth, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flachsbarth, Maria Franziska (full name); Füßmann, Maria Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Luenen