Nadine Schön | |
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_by_Sandro_Halank%25E2%2580%25935.jpg) Schön in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Rainer Tabillion |
| Constituency | St. Wendel (2009–2021),Saarland list (2021–) |
| Member of theLandtag of Saarland | |
| In office 5 September 2004 – 10 November 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Gaby Schäfer |
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| Born | (1983-06-05)5 June 1983 (age 42) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | CDU |
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Nadine Schön (bornNadine Müller, 5 June 1983 inLebach,Saarland) is a Germanpolitician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German Parliament from 2009 to 2025,[1] representing the constituency ofSt. Wendel.
Between2004 and 2009, Schön served as a member of theLandtag of the Saarland, where she was the CDU parliamentary group's spokesperson on research and higher education.
Schön became a member of the GermanBundestag in the2009 federal elections. Between 2009 and 2013, she served on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology and the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur on gender equality and thevalidation of foreign studies and degrees.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition ofChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democrats (SPD) following the2013 German elections, Schön was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led byDorothee Bär andBrigitte Zypries. In 2014, she was appointed deputy chairperson of theCDU/CSU parliamentary group in charge of digital policy as well as family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth.
Following the2017 elections, Schön succeededPeter Altmaier as chair of the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from Saarland. In the negotiations to form anothercoalition government under Merkel, she was again part of the working group on digital policy, this time led by Bär,Helge Braun andLars Klingbeil.[2]
Together withRoland Heintze,Daniel Günther,Andreas Jung,David McAllister,Antje Tillmann andOliver Wittke, Schön co-chaired the CDU’s 2018 national convention inHamburg.[3]
After having initiallyfailed to get re-elected in the2021 German federal election, Schön retained her seat whenAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned from the Bundestag two weeks after the election. Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2022, Schön publicly endorsedHelge Braun to succeedArmin Laschet as the party’s chair and joined his campaign team.[4]
Schön supportedMarkus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeedChancellorAngela Merkel in the2021 national elections.[5]
In July 2024, Schön announced that she would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
In June 2017, Schön voted against her parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[12]
In April 2020, Schön co-signed – alongside around 50 other members of her parliamentary group – a letter toPresident of the European CommissionUrsula von der Leyen which called on the European Union to take in children who were living in migrant camps across Greece.[13][14]
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