1. Marco Wanderwitz was born on 10 October 1975 and is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
15 Facts About Marco Wanderwitz
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Marco Wanderwitz joined the Junge Union in 1990 and the CDU party in 1998.
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Marco Wanderwitz is a Chairman of the CDU district department in Zwickau and he belongs to the board of the protestant working group in Chemnitz and Chemnitz district.
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Marco Wanderwitz is a member of the local political association of Chemnitz-Mittweida-Zwickau.
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Since 2004 Marco Wanderwitz has been a part of the City Council of the major district town Hohenstein-Ernstthal.
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Marco Wanderwitz always entered the German Bundestag as directly elected deputy.
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In 2006, Marco Wanderwitz joined Friedrich Merz and eight other parliamentarians who filed a complaint at the Federal Constitutional Court against the disclosure of additional sources of income; the complaint was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Marco Wanderwitz was a full member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.
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Ahead of the 2021 elections, Marco Wanderwitz was elected to lead the CDU's campaign in Saxony.
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In November 2024, Marco Wanderwitz announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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In June 2017, Marco Wanderwitz voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.
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Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2018, Marco Wanderwitz publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.
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In 2019, Marco Wanderwitz joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Merkel and Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.
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Together with Carmen Wegge, Till Steffen and Martina Renner, Marco Wanderwitz was one of the initiators of a 2024 cross-party initiative to request that the Federal Constitutional Court issue a ban of the far-right Alternative for Germany party.
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In January 2025, Marco Wanderwitz was one of 12 CDU lawmakers who opted not to back a draft law on tightening immigration policy sponsored by their own leader Friedrich Merz, who had pushed for the law despite warnings from party colleagues that he risked being tarnished with the charge of voting alongside the Alternative for Germany.