11 Facts About Karin Prien

Karin Prien was previously a member of the Hamburg Parliament.

Since 2022, Prien has been one of four deputy chairs of the CDU, under the leadership of chairman Friedrich Merz.

Karin Prien took the first Staatsexamen in 1989, which was followed by the LL.

Since 1994, Karin Prien has been an independent lawyer specializing in commercial and insolvency law in Hanover, Leipzig and Hamburg.

Karin Prien was from 2004 to April 2012 deputy CDU local chairwoman in Blankenese, from 2006 Deputy District Chairwoman in the district association Altona-Elbvororte, and since 2010 a member of the CDU state executive committee.

Karin Prien was a political spokeswoman for the CDU parliamentary group and a member of the parliamentary group's leadership.

Karin Prien was Deputy Group Chair and Specialist for the School and Constitution of the CDU.

Since 17 November 2018, Karin Prien has been one of the four deputy chairs of the CDU Schleswig-Holstein, succeeding State Minister for Justice Sabine Sutterlin-Waack who did not run for reelection.

Karin Prien was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.

Karin Prien opposes Gendern, a form of writing in which the three grammatical genders, which are usually represented through different words, are combined by adding special characters within the word.

Karin Prien is married to lawyer Jochen Karin Prien and has three children.