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Bettina Wiesmann
Bettina Wiesmann in 2013

Member of the Bundestag for Frankfurt am Main II
In office 24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by	Erika Steinbach
Succeeded by	Omid Nouripour
Incumbent
Assumed office 2024
Personal details
Born	20 October 1966 (age 58) Berlin, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	CDU

Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann (born 20 October 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Berlin, she has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2017 to 2021 and again since 2024.^[1]

Wiesmann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.^[2] In parliament, she was a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.^[3]

In 2022, Wiesmann unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the CDU’s national board.^[4]

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Member of the Advisory Board^[5]

Political positions

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In 2019, Wiesmann joined 14 members of her parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.^[6]

^ Oliver Bock (20 January 2024), Abgeordnete aus Rhein-Main: Vier Verlierer dürfen doch noch in den Bundestag Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
^ "Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
^ "German Bundestag - Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
^ CDU-Bundesparteitag: Claus neu im Bundesvorstand der CDU Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 January 2022.
^ Advisory Board Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
^ Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Official website (in German)
Bundestag biography (in English)

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