1. Katja Isabel Leikert is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013, representing the Hanau electoral district.
15 Facts About Katja Leikert
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Katja Leikert grew up in the Rhineland, her family ending up in Hanau after 1988.
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In 1995, Katja Leikert embarked on a degree course in Political Sciences at Frankfurt university.
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Katja Leikert's doctorate, received from the University of Kaiserslautern, followed in 2006.
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Katja Leikert's dissertation was supervised by Jurgen Wilzewski and concerned United States security policy in respect of Iran and North Korea; it has subsequently been commercially published.
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Katja Leikert joined the centre right Christian Democratic Union in 2012.
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Katja Leikert is chair of the Women's Union for her home region of Main-Kinzig, a co-opted member of the regional party executive, a co-opted member of the party executive for the municipality of Bruchkobel and a member of the Bruchkobel Commission for Families, Children, Young people and Old people.
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Katja Leikert became a member of the Bundestag Health Committee, where she served as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on organ donation and eHealth.
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Katja Leikert became meetings secretary and a deputising member of the Committee for Families, Women and Young people, and of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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Since the 2021 elections, Katja Leikert has been a member of the Committee for Families, Women and Youth and of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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In June 2024, Katja Leikert announced that she would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead pause her career in active politics.
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In June 2017, Katja Leikert voted against her parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.
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In 2019, Katja Leikert joined 14 members of her parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Chancellor Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.
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Ahead of the 2021 national elections, Katja Leikert endorsed Armin Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Merkel as chancellor.
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Katja Leikert is married with two daughters, born in 2007 and 2010.