Bettina Wiesmann
Bettina Wiesmann in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
for Frankfurt am Main II
In office
24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021
Preceded byErika Steinbach
Succeeded byOmid Nouripour
Personal details
Born (1966-10-20) 20 October 1966
Berlin, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU

Bettina Wiesmann (born 20 October 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Berlin, she served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2017 to 2021.

Political career

Wiesmann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[1] In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[2]

Political positions

In 2019, Wiesmann joined 14 members of her parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "German Bundestag - Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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