Andreas Nick

Andreas Nick (born 26 April 1967) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013.

Andreas Nick
Andreas Nick in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1967-04-26) 26 April 1967
Koblenz, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma mater

Early career

Before entering politics, Nick worked in corporate finance for Barclays/BZW, Credit Suisse First Boston and UBS both in Frankfurt and London. His most recent positions were as head of M&A at Sal. Oppenheim and as professor of corporate finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.[1]

Political career

Nick became member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[2] In parliament, he has since been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,[3][4] where he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the Council of Europe and the United Nations as well as on relations to Turkey, Hungary[5] and South America.[6] In 2018, he also joined the Sub-Committee on the United Nations.

In addition to his parliamentary work, Nick has been chairing the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2018. He has since also been serving as one of the Assembly's vice-presidents.[7] He has also been a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 2018), the Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 2018) and the Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (2018-2019).[8]

Other activities
  • American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Member of the Board of Trustees (2007-2013)

Political positions

In 2019, Nick joined 14 members of his 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.[9] Ahead of the CDU's 2021 leadership election, Nick joined other conservatives in calling on Merkel to stay on as chancellor until her term ends in 2021, dismissing calls for her to step down sooner and hand power to the party's next leader.[10]

In September 2020, Nick was one of 15 members of his parliamentary group who joined Norbert Röttgen in writing an open letter to Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer which called on Germany and other EU counties to take in 5,000 immigrants who were left without shelter after fires gutted the overcrowded Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.[11]

References
  1. 2019 Europe Conference: Andreas Nick Chatham House.
  2. "Dr. Andreas Nick". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  4. Andreas Rinke and Paul Carrel (February 19, 2020), German conservative big guns rally behind Merkel Reuters.
  5. Thomas Escritt (May 28, 2018), Don't cross our civil rights red lines, Merkel ally warns Orban Reuters.
  6. 2019 Europe Conference: Andreas Nick Chatham House.
  7. "Podcast: Keeping up the PACE (with Dr. Andreas Nick & Miroslava Širotníková)". Europe Elects. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  8. Andreas Nick Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
  9. Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  10. Andreas Rinke and Paul Carrel (February 19, 2020), German conservative big guns rally behind Merkel Reuters.
  11. Offener Brief an Seehofer: Röttgen fordert Aufnahme von 5000 Migranten aus Moria Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 10, 2020.
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