1. Kai Wegner was born on 15 September 1972 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as Governing Mayor of Berlin since April 2023.
11 Facts About Kai Wegner
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Kai Wegner served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2005 to 2021.
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Kai Wegner joined the CDU in 1989 and served as vice chair of the party in Berlin from 2000 to 2002.
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Kai Wegner was a member of the German Bundestag from the 2005 until 2021, representing Berlin's Spandau district.
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From 2011 until 2016, Kai Wegner served as secretary general of the CDU in Berlin, under the leadership of chairman Frank Henkel.
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In October 2020, Kai Wegner announced his candidacy for Governing Mayor of Berlin in the 2021 Berlin state election; he eventually lost against Franziska Giffey.
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Kai Wegner has since been serving as his parliamentary group's chairperson and thereby the leader of the opposition.
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Kai Wegner was appointed as CDU delegate to the Federal Conventions for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.
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In June 2017, Kai Wegner voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.
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Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election, Kai Wegner first endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz and later Jens Spahn to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.
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Kai Wegner is Protestant, divorced, and has two children with his second wife and one with his first wife.