Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus | |
|---|---|
_03.jpg) Aschenberg-Dugnus in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag forSchleswig-Holstein | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 2025 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 22 October 2013 | |
| Constituency | FDP List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-09-22)22 September 1959 (age 66) |
| Political party | Free Democratic Party |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Marburg |
Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (born 22 September 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofSchleswig-Holstein from 2017 to 2025.[1]
After graduating from high school inKassel, Aschenberg-Dugnus began studying economics at the Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1978, but moved toUniversity of Marburg in 1979, where she studied law until 1985. From 1992 until 2001, she worked at theUniversity of Kiel. Since 2001, she has been running her own law firm in Strande.[2]
Aschenberg-Dugnus has been a member of the FDP since 1997.
Aschenberg-Dugnus was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2013, representing the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district. During that time, she served on the Health Committee and the Committee on Legal Affairs.
In the2017 elections, Aschenberg-Dugnus returned to the Bundestag. She served on the Health Committee. From March 2018, she was her parliamentary group's health policy spokesperson.[3][4] Since 2019, she has also been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democrats (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Aschenberg-Dugnus led her party's delegation in the working group on health policy; her co-chairs from the other parties wereKatja Pähle andMaria Klein-Schmeink.[5]
In early 2024, Aschenberg-Dugnus announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
Amid the emergence of theSARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Germany in late 2021, Aschenberg-Dugnus was one of 22 members of the FDP parliamentary group who advocated against the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.[8]
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