Dietrich Monstadt Explained

Dietrich Monstadt
Office:Member of the Bundestag for Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I
Term Start:2009
Term End:2021
Birth Date:1957 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Bochum, West Germany
Party:CDU
Nationality:German
Successor:Reem Alabali-Radovan
Predecessor:Hans-Joachim Hacker

Dietrich Monstadt (born 15 September 1957) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2009. He was born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Political career

Monstadt has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2009 German federal election.[1] He serves as on the Health Committee,[2] where he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on diabetes and obesity.[3]

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Monstadt publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.[4]

He lost his constituency at the 2021 German federal election but was re-elected on the state list.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dietrich Monstadt. CDU/CSU-Fraktion. 2020-03-22.
  2. Web site: German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-22.
  3. Irene Geuer (June 19, 2018), Ernährungsdebatte in Deutschland: Süße Versuchung Zuckersteuer Deutschlandfunk.
  4. Juliane Schultz (December 6, 2018), CDU MV vor Parteitag: Amthor wählt Spahn – Konservativer Kreis überraschend ohne Favoriten Ostsee-Zeitung.