Andrea Lindholz

Andrea Lindholz (born 25 September 1970) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013. She represents the Aschaffenburg constituency.

Andrea Lindholz
Andrea Lindholz in 2018
Member of the Bundestag for Aschaffenburg
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Preceded by	Norbert Geis
Personal details
Born	(1970-09-25) 25 September 1970 (age 54) Bonn, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	CSU
Alma mater	Goethe University Frankfurt University of Würzburg

Early career

Born in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lindholz studied law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Würzburg. Since 2000, she has been practicing as a lawyer specialized on family law in Aschaffenburg.

Political career

Lindholz first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.^[1] She is a member of the Committee for Home Affairs.^[2] Since 2018, she has also been a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home and the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD.

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Lindholz was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas.

Since 2021, Lindholz has been serving as one her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of successive chairs Ralph Brinkhaus (2021–2022) and Friedrich Merz (2022–present). In this capacity, she oversees the group’s legislative activities on internal and legal affairs.^[3]

In 2023, Lindholz joined a cross-party working group on dogs.^[4]

Other activities

• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees^[5]
• Technisches Hilfswerk (Federal Agency for Technical Relief), Vice President of the Federal Association^[6]
• Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future“ (EVZ), Deputy Member of the Board of Trustees^[7]
• Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Deputy Member of the Board of Trustees^[8]
• St Barbara Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees^[9]

Political positions

In June 2017, Lindholz voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.^[10]

References

1. "Andrea Lindholz". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
2. "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
3. Neuaufstellung der Union: Spahn ist jetzt Stellvertreter des Fraktionsvorsitzenden Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 December 2021.
4. Boris Herrmann (29 May 2023), Tiere am Arbeitsplatz: Hund und Mandat vereinbaren Süddeutsche Zeitung.
5. "Kuratorium der Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas gewählt". Website of the German Parliament (in German). Deutscher Bundestag, Online-Dienste. 8 November 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
6. "Martin Gerster ist neuer Präsident. Andrea Lindholz (MdB) wird neue Vizepräsidentin". THW Bundesvereinigung (in German). THW-Bundesvereinigung e.V. 7 November 2021. Archived from the original on 1 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
7. Board of Trustees Archived 6 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future".
8. Foundation Bodies Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
9. Board of Trustees St Barbara Foundation.
10. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.

External links

• Media related to Andrea Lindholz at Wikimedia Commons
• Bundestag biography (in English)