Christoph de Vries

Christoph de Vries (born 4 December 1974) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.

Christoph de Vries
Christoph de Vries in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1974-12-04) 4 December 1974
Hamburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg

Political career

From 2011 bis 2015, De Vries served as a member of the State Parliament of Hamburg, where he was his parliamentary group’s on family policy. Since 2016, he has been one of the deputy chairpersons of the CDU in Hamburg, under the leadership of chairman Roland Heintze.

De Vries became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Hamburg Mitte district.[1] He is a member of the Committee for Home Affairs.[2] In this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on religious groups.

Political positions

In 2020, De Vries opposed plans to introduce a mandatory quota aimed at achieving equal representation of women within the CDU’s regional and national governing bodies by 2025.[3][4]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2021, De Vries publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.[5]

References
  1. "Christoph de Vries". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. Andreas Rinke (July 8, 2020), Merkel's Christian Democrats aim to fill half key party posts with women by 2025 Reuters.
  4. Florian Gathmann (July 8, 2020), Frauenquote: CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete kritisieren Quotenbeschluss Der Spiegel.
  5. Marku Arnd (January 13, 2021), Abstimmung über den Bundesvorsitz: Hamburgs CDU-Delegierte wählen fast alle Merz Bild.
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