Isabel Cademartori | |
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| Member of the Bundestag forBaden-Württemberg | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Kordula Kovac |
| Constituency | Mannheim |
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| Born | (1988-01-09)9 January 1988 (age 37) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Website | cademartori |
Isabel Andrea Cademartori Dujisin (born 9 January 1988 inBad Saarow-Pieskow) is a German politician (SPD) who was elected asMember of theBundestag forMannheim in the2021 federal election.[1]
Cademartori’s parents had met while studying at theUniversity of Leipzig. In 1989, before the fall of theBerlin Wall and after the referendum inChile that sealed the end of theAugusto Pinochet dictatorship, the family moved to her father's country of origin and lived inSantiago de Chile, where she attended theGerman School. After her parents' failed marriage, she returned to Germany with her mother and brother in 2000 and lived inHanover.[2][3][4] After a year abroad inSouth Africa (2004/2005), she completed herAbitur at the Sophienschule Hanover in 2007.[5][6]
She graduated from theUniversity of MannheimBusiness School. After she obtained a Master of Science in Business Education, also in Mannheim. After graduating, she worked as aresearch assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Business Education at the University of Mannheim from 2014 and most recently at theBaden-Württemberg state parliament. From 2019 to 2020, Cademartori was a doctoral candidate and doctoral scholarship holder of theFriedrich Ebert Foundation.[5]
Since 2012, she has been involved as a district councillor in the city centre and in the Jungbusch district, in the Mannheim SPD district association and at state level of the party, becoming deputy state chairwoman of the Baden-WürttembergJusos. Cademartori served as a city councillor inMannheim since 2019,[7] and since December 2020, deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council and spokesperson for urban development and mobility. In September 2022, she resigned her seat on the municipal council due to her election to the Bundestag.[8]
She is a member of the state executive of the SPD Baden-Württemberg. In October 2020, she became the SPD's Bundestag candidate forMannheim.[9][10] Cademartori was elected to theBundestag in the2021 German federal election.[11] She won thedirect mandate in theconstituency of Mannheim (275) with 26.35%[12] to 22.53% of thefirst votes againstMelis Sekmen (Alliance 90/The Greens), who lost in the first round.[6] In the 20th German Bundestag, she is a full member. In the 20th German Bundestag, she is a full member of the Transport Committee and a deputy member of the Health Committee and the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Local Authorities.[5] In September 2023, Cademartori was elected transport policy spokesperson for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.[13] She is a member of theSeeheimer Kreis.[14]Cademartori is in favour of the use of nuclear power.[14] In May 2024, she spoke out in favour of Germany recognising Palestine as a state, following the example of other EU states.[15]In the2025 federal election, she managed to regain a seat in the Bundestag by being placed 9th on the SPD Baden-Württemberg state list.[16]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2025 German elections, Cademartori was again part of the SPD delegation in the working group on transport, infrastructure and housing, led byIna Scharrenbach,Ulrich Lange,Klara Geywitz andSören Bartol.[17]
Cademartori's grandfather, the economist and political scientistJosé Cademartori (1930–2024) was a member of theCommunist Party of Chile and underSalvador Allende was brieflyMinister for Economy, Development and Reconstruction between July 5, 1973, and September 11.[20] After thecoup in Chile in 1973 byAugusto Pinochet, the family had to flee South America and came toEast Germany viaVenezuela andCuba, where her parents met while studying at theUniversity of Leipzig.[21]
Cademartori is single and lives in the Neckarstadt-Ost district of Mannheim. She has an older sister and a younger brother. She has both German and Chilean citizenship. She is the chairwoman of the "Friends and Patrons of the Herschelbad in Mannheim e.V." association.[22][23]
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