Anita Schäfer

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Anita Schäfer
Anita Schäfer in 2017
Member of the Bundestag from Pirmasens
In office
1998–2021
Personal details
Born (1951-07-09) 9 July 1951 (age 72)
Saalstadt, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU

Anita Schäfer (born 9 July 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1998 until 2021. She represented the constituency of Pirmasens.

Political career[edit]

Schäfer became a member of the Bundestag in the 1998 German federal election.[1] In parliament, she served on the Defense Committee.[2]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election, Schäfer publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[3]

In August 2020, Schäfer announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anita Schäfer". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Defence". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. ^ Andreas Schröder (February 26, 2020), Zwei für Merz, einer für Laschet: Wen Pfälzer CDU-Abgeordnete unterstützen wollen Die Rheinpfalz.
  4. ^ Andreas Ganter (August 19, 2020), Bundestagsabgeordnete Anita Schäfer macht nach über 20 Jahren Platz für die nächste Generation Die Rheinpfalz.

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