Kai Whittaker | |
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_(Foto-_Steven_Vangermain).jpg) Whittaker in 2021 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1985-04-10)10 April 1985 (age 40) Baden-Baden, Germany |
| Citizenship | Germany • United Kingdom |
| Political party | CDU (since 1999) |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol London School of Economics |
| Website | www.whittaker.de |
Kai Whittaker (born 10 April 1985)[1][2] is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of theBundestag since 2013.
Born inBaden-Baden to a British father and German mother,[1] Whittaker completed hisAbitur at theMarkgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in 2004. Following hisZivildienst, he studied Economics and Management at theUniversity of Bristol, graduating in 2008.[1] After a year working forLeoni AG, Whittaker then pursued a master's degree in European Political Economy at theLondon School of Economics, graduating in 2010.[1] Between 2011 and 2013, he worked forHerrenknecht.
Whittaker was directly elected to the Bundestag in 2013 with 53.5% of the vote in theRastatt district.[3] He has since been a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, serving as his parliamentary group'srapporteur on public procurement, social welfare and the effects of digitization of work.[4] In 2018, he also joined the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development.
In June 2017, Whittaker voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[5][6]
Ahead of the2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, Whittaker publicly endorsedNorbert Röttgen to succeedAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.[7]
He is a member of theUnion der Mitte, a centrist caucus of the CDU.[8]
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