Gitta Connemann | |
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 Connemann in 2025 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2002 | |
| Constituency | Unterems |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gitta Saathoff (1964-05-10)10 May 1964 (age 60) Leer,East Frisia,West Germany |
| Political party | CDU (since 1996) |
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| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Lawyer •Politician |
Gitta Connemann (born 10 May 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2002. Since 2021, she has been serving as the chairwoman of MIT, the pro-business wing in theCDU/CSU.[1]
Born to a Dutch mother and a German father, Connemann grew up on a farm. From 1984 until 1990, she studied law at theUniversity of Osnabrück and theJohannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. She worked at a law firm inDarmstadt from 1993 to 1995. She later practiced as an independent lawyer with her own firm, Rickes Connemann, inLeer.
Connemann has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since the2002 elections, succeedingRudolf Seiters. She representsUnterems. Between 2005 and 2013, she served on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, where she was her parliamentary group'srapporteur onlabor law. She was also a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and Media (2005-2009). From 2014 until 2015, she chaired the Committee on Food and Agriculture. She served as deputy chairperson of theCDU/CSU parliamentary group, under the leadership of successive chairsVolker Kauder (2015–2018) andRalph Brinkhaus (2018–2021).
In addition to her committee assignments, Connemann has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group since 2005.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Connemann was part of the working group on municipalities and rural areas, led byReiner Haseloff,Kurt Gribl andMichael Groschek.
In 2021, Connemann announced her candidacy to succeedCarsten Linnemann as chair of MIT, the pro-business wing in theCDU/CSU;[2] she won overThomas Jarzombek.[3]
Since 2022, Connemann has been chairing – alongsideBernd Althusmann – a working group charged with drafting the CDU’s positions on energy policy.[4]
Under the umbrella of the godparenthood program of human rights organization IGMF forpolitical prisoners, Connemann has been raising awareness for the activities ofCuban political dissidentMarta Beatriz Roque since 2014.[6]
Connemann was one of only five CDU parliamentarians who voted against the government's draft law on introducing a national minimum wage for the first time in Germany's history in July 2014.[7]
In April 2020, Connemann 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.[8][9]
Connemann married fellow CDU politician Gerd Dählmann inHoltland in August 2015.[10] The ceremony's guests includedDavid McAllister andJulia Klöckner.[11]
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