1. Oliver Wittke was born on 24 September 1966 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
12 Facts About Oliver Wittke
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From 1999 to 2004, Oliver Wittke was the direct elected mayor of Gelsenkirchen, this office was ever hold before by politicians of the SPD.
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On 24 June 2005, Oliver Wittke was appointed State Minister of Construction and Transport in the cabinet of Minister-President Jurgen Ruttgers of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Oliver Wittke had committed a similarly severe traffic violation in 2000, and had been barred from driving for four weeks.
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From 2010 until 2012, Oliver Wittke served as Secretary-General of the CDU of North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of chairman Norbert Rottgen.
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Oliver Wittke was first elected to the German Bundestag in the 2013 federal elections.
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Oliver Wittke served on the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and its Sub-Committee on Municipal Politics.
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Together with Roland Heintze, Daniel Gunther, Andreas Jung, David McAllister, Nadine Schon and Antje Tillmann, Oliver Wittke co-chaired the CDU's 2018 national convention in Hamburg.
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In October 2019, Oliver Wittke submitted his resignation from government and instead became the managing director of the German Property Federation.
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In June 2017, Oliver Wittke 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 in 2018, Oliver Wittke publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.
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Oliver Wittke later endorsed Norbert Rottgen as Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor at the party's 2021 leadership election.