Valentin Abel (born 7 February 1991) is a German Free Democratic Party politician. He was a

Member of the 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 ...

from

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

from 2021 to 2025..

Early life and career

Abel was born in Künzelsau and graduated from the

University of Mannheim The University of Mannheim (German: ''Universität Mannheim''), abbreviated UMA, is a public university, public research university in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1967, the university has its origins in the ''Palatine Aca ...

. From 2016 until 2021, he worked at

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Political career

Abel contested

Schwäbisch Hall – Hohenlohe Schwäbisch Hall – Hohenlohe is an electoral constituency ( German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituen ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

and 2021. In 2021 he was elected to the Bundestag on the state list. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and the Committee on Petitions. He is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on cycling. In addition to his committee assignments, Abel is part of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Other activities

* Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council (since 2022)Bundestag setzt Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium ein

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...

, 24 March 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abel, Valentin Living people 1991 births Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany) Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 People from Künzelsau University of Mannheim alumni