Cornell-Anette Babendererde (born 1 March 1971) is a German politician from the

Christian Democratic Union of Germany The Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( , CDU ) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is the major party of the centre-right in German politics. Friedrich Merz has been federal chairman of the CDU since 31 ...

(CDU). She was elected as a

member of the German Bundestag Member of the German Parliament () is the official name given to a deputy in the Bundestag, German Bundestag. ''Member of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichstag building in Berlin. In G ...

in the 2025 federal election.

Life

Cornell Babendererde grew up in Boostedt. She pursued

German studies German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on German culture, German h ...

and

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

and

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpa ...

and received her doctorate in 2003 from the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; ), formerly known as Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Founded in 1456, it is one of th ...

with a thesis on burial rituals in the

late Middle Ages The late Middle Ages or late medieval period was the Periodization, period of History of Europe, European history lasting from 1300 to 1500 AD. The late Middle Ages followed the High Middle Ages and preceded the onset of the early modern period ( ...

. 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 . She is currently deputy head of the Department for Investment and Funding Management at the . Babendererde is married and lives in

Winsen (Luhe) Winsen (Luhe) () is the capital of the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the small river Luhe, near its confluence with the Elbe, approx. 25 km southeast of Hamburg, and 20 km northwest of Lüneburg. Hi ...

Politics

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. From 2014 to 2020 she was chairwoman of the CDU local association in Winsen (Luhe). She ran for the CDU in Lower Saxony in the 2019 European elections. The CDU in the Harburg district nominated Babendererde as a

direct candidate In Germany, a direktmandat ( ''English'': direct mandate) is a parliamentary seat that is won by the candidate who receives the most votes in a constituency in a legislative election. In the mixed-member proportional representation system used in ...

for the Harburg constituency for the

2025 German federal election The 2025 German federal election was held in Germany on 23 February 2025 to elect the 630 members of the List of members of the 21st Bundestag, 21st Bundestag, down from 736 in 2021 due to reforms in seat distribution. The 2025 election took plac ...

. She won her constituency with 33.2% of the

first vote In Germany, the first vote (German language, German: ''Erststimme'') is used to elect a Direct mandate, direct candidate in a Electoral district, constituency. In the Federal states of Germany, federal states, the first vote is sometimes called the ...

and was thus directly elected to the Bundestag.

External links

''Dr. Cornell-Anette Babendererde''
auf bundestag.de

References

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