Bettina Wiesmann

Bettina Wiesmann (born 20 October 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Born in Berlin, she has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2017.

Bettina Wiesmann
Bettina Wiesmann in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1966-10-20) 20 October 1966
Berlin, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Political career

Wiesmann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[1] In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[2]

Political positions

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.[3]

gollark: Also broadly speaking that said more fancy clothes are better somehow than the T-shirt/"sweatpant" trouser things I actually like wearing.
gollark: I mean that they insist I need cotton shirts (because natural → good somehow?!) and also have to wear ironed clothes?
gollark: Well, they seem to think that I should wear excessively fancy clothes (beyond the somewhat-fancy-clothes requirement of my school dress code) or people will judge me for it somehow?
gollark: I care somewhat about appearance, but your comment reminds me very much of the whole thing my parents have with looking "smart".
gollark: Surely nobody is going around licking windows *now*.

References
  1. "Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "German Bundestag - Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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