Petra Nicolaisen Explained

Petra Nicolaisen
Term Start:26 October 2021
Constituency:CDU State-wide list
Term Start1:24 September 2017
Term End1:26 October 2021
Constituency1:Flensburg – Schleswig
Predecessor1:Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
Successor1:Robert Habeck
Birth Date:1965 12, df=yes
Party:Christian Democratic Union
Nationality:German

Petra Nicolaisen (born 12 December 1965) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Schleswig-Holstein since 2017.

Political career

From 2009 until 2017, Nicolaisen was a member of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein for three terms, where she served on the Committee on Internal and Legal Affairs. She also served on the Committee on the Environment and Agriculture and the Committee on Petitions from 2009 until 2012.

Nicolaisen became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Flensburg – Schleswig constituency.[1] She lost the constituency to Green Party co-leader Robert Habeck in 2021, but was nevertheless re-elected to the Bundestag through the CDU state party list in Schleswig-Holstein. She is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.[2]

In addition to her committee assignments, Nicolaisen co-chairs the German-Nordic Parliamentary Friendship Group and is a member of the German delegation to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC).

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Petra Nicolaisen. CDU/CSU-Fraktion. 2020-03-22.
  2. Web site: German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-22.