| Cornelia Seibeld | |
| Office: | President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin |
| Term Start: | 16 March 2023 |
| Office1: | Vice President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin |
| Alongside1: | Manuela Schmidt (until Nov. 2021) and Bahar Haghanipour (since Nov. 2021) |
| President1: | Dennis Buchner |
| Term Start1: | 28 October 2016 |
| Term End1: | 16 March 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Andreas Gram |
| Office2: | Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin |
| Term Start2: | 26 October 2006 |
| Birth Name: | Cornelia Seibeld |
| Birth Place: | West Berlin |
| Party: | CDU |
| Alma Mater: | Free University of Berlin |
Cornelia Seibeld (born 1974) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since March 2023, she has served as the president of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, having previously served as vice-president from 2016-2023. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2006.
Seibeld grew up in the West Berlin neighbourhood of Schöneberg and attended the Barnim and Fläming elementary schools. She graduated from the Walter-Rathenau-Gymnasium in 1994. Afterwards she studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1999 and, after completing her law examinations in 1999 and 2001, began working as a lawyer in 2002. She specialises in construction and architecture.[1] [2] She has a son with fellow CDU politician Sven Rissmann.[3]
Seibeld joined the CDU and the Steglitz-Zehlendorf branch of the Young Union in 1996. In 2005, she became deputy chair of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf CDU. She was also previously secretary of the municipal CDU associations in Wannsee and Lilienthal.[1] [2]
Seibeld was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in the 2006 Berlin state election, winning the constituency of Steglitz-Zehlendorf 4. In the 2006–2011 term, she was CDU spokeswoman for legal policy. From 2010–11, she was also deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group. She was re-elected in 2011 and became spokeswoman for religious policy in 2013. She was also a member of the Committee for the Constitution, Legal Affairs, Consumer Protection, and Rules of Procedure. She was also an assessor in the Abgeordnetenahus presidium.[1] [2]
After the 2016 Berlin state election, Seibeld was elected as vice president of the Abgeordnetenhaus.[3] [4] She also joined the Committee for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs. She was re-elected both to the Abgeordnetenhaus and as vice president after the 2021 Berlin state election.[1] [5] [6]
After the re-run 2023 Berlin state election, at which the CDU became the largest party, Seibeld was elected as president of the Abgeordnetenhaus.[7]