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Cornell Babendererde

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Cornell Babendererde
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2025
Preceded bySvenja Stadler
ConstituencyHarburg
Personal details
Born (1971-03-01) 1 March 1971 (age 54)
Neumünster
Political partyCDU (since 2006)

Cornell-Anette Babendererde (born 1 March 1971) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). She was elected as a member of the German Bundestag in the 2025 federal election.

Life

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Cornell Babendererde grew up in Boostedt. She pursued German studies and history in Heidelberg and Greifswald and received her doctorate in 2003 from the University of Greifswald with a thesis on burial rituals in the late Middle Ages.[1] She then worked as a human resources manager in a personnel consultancy, was a consultant and press spokesperson for the CDU parliamentary group in Hamburg, as a consultant in the economic authority and was office manager for Birgit Stöver [de].

She is currently deputy head of the Department for Investment and Funding Management at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economic Affairs [de].[1]

Babendererde is married and lives in Winsen (Luhe).[2]

Politics

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Cornell Babendererde has been a member of the CDU since 2006. She was elected to the city council of Winsen (Luhe) in 2006 and has been first deputy mayor since 2021.[3] From 2014 to 2020 she was chairwoman of the CDU local association in Winsen (Luhe).[4]

She ran for the CDU in Lower Saxony in the 2019 European elections.[5] The CDU in the Harburg district nominated Babendererde as a direct candidate for the Harburg constituency for the 2025 German federal election.[2] She won her constituency with 33.2% of the first vote and was thus directly elected to the Bundestag.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Cornell Babendererde | Ihre Kandidatin" (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  2. ^ a b "Aufstellungsversammlung der CDU: Dr. Cornell Babendererde ist Bundestagskandidatin" (in German). 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  3. ^ Stadt Winsen (2021-11-19). "Winsener Stadtrat hat sich konstituiert" (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  4. ^ "Dr. Höppner übernimmt Vorsitz" (in German). 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  5. ^ "Winsen: Wahlsieg für den Amtsinhaber: André Wiese (CDU) bleibt Bürgermeister in Winsen" (in German). 2019-05-26. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  6. ^ "Ergebnisse Harburg - Die Bundeswahlleiterin". Retrieved 2025-02-25.