Marian Wendt

Marian Wendt (born 9 June 1985) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2013.

Marian Wendt
Marian Wendt in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1985-06-09) 9 June 1985
Torgau, East Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Political career

Wendt became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing North Saxony.[1] He is a member of the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Internal Affairs.[2][3] Since 2018, he has also been a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home. He serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on political extremism and the EU–US Privacy Shield.

In addition to his committee assignments, Wendt is part of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe and the Berlin-Taipei Parliamentary Circle of Friends.

In September 2020, Wendt announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]

Political positions

In June 2017, Wendt voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[5] Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, he publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.

References
  1. "Marian Wendt". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "German Bundestag - Petitions". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  4. Paukenschlag in Nordsachsen-Politik: Marian Wendt kündigt Rückzug an Leipziger Volkszeitung, September 2, 2020.
  5. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
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