Andrea Lindholz | |
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| Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the CDU/CSU group) | |
| Assumed office 25 March 2025 | |
| President | Julia Klöckner |
| Preceded by | Yvonne Magwas |
| Member of theBundestag forAschaffenburg | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Norbert Geis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1970-09-25)25 September 1970 (age 55) |
| Political party | CSU (since 1998) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | |
Andrea Lindholz (born 25 September 1970) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBavaria since 2013 and as its Vice President since 2025. She represents theAschaffenburgconstituency.
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Born inBonn,North Rhine-Westphalia, Lindholz studied law at theGoethe University Frankfurt and theUniversity of Würzburg. Since 2000, she has been practicing as a lawyer specialized onfamily law inAschaffenburg.
Lindholz first became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[1] She is a member of the Committee for Home Affairs.[2] From 2018, she was also a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home and theParliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence servicesBND,BfV andMAD.[citation needed]
In the negotiations to form afourthcoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Lindholz was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byThomas de Maizière,Stephan Mayer andHeiko Maas.[citation needed]
From 2021 to 2025, Lindholz served as one her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of successive chairsRalph Brinkhaus (2021–2022) andFriedrich Merz (2022–2025). In this capacity, she oversaw the group’s legislative activities on internal and legal affairs.[3]
In 2023, Lindholz joined a cross-party working group on dogs.[4]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition between the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz and theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) following the2025 German elections, Lindholz led the CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration; her co-chairs from the other parties wereGünter Krings andDirk Wiese.[5]
In June 2017, Lindholz voted against Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[11]
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