15 Facts About Paul Ziemiak

Paul Ziemiak moved to then-West Germany in 1988 with his parents, who wanted to escape the conditions of Communist Poland and the Eastern Bloc.

Paul Ziemiak has said the facility was often visited by the police and that he befriended a Roma family that lived there.

Paul Ziemiak grew up bilingual, with parents who were native Polish speakers and who only spoke German as a foreign language.

Paul Ziemiak has said the family was culturally Polish and that Germany only gradually felt like home.

Paul Ziemiak then enrolled at the Business and Information Technology School in Iserlohn to study corporate communications.

Since 2005 Paul Ziemiak has been a member of the Catholic fraternity AV Widukind Osnabruck within the CV.

Paul Ziemiak joined the Young Union in 1998, and in 2001 the CDU.

On 25 November 2012 Paul Ziemiak was elected state chairman of the Junge Union NRW and held this office until 15 November 2014.

Paul Ziemiak thus is a member of the CDU federal board and replaced Philipp Missfelder, who did not run again.

On 14 October 2016, Paul Ziemiak was again elected Federal Chairman with 85 percent of the vote.

In February 2017, Paul Ziemiak was a member of the 16th Federal Assembly for the election of the Federal President.

In parliament, Paul Ziemiak served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2021 before moving to the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.

Paul Ziemiak was elected on the same day, with 63 percent of the delegates voting for him as the only candidate for the role.

At the time of the vote, Paul Ziemiak's nomination was widely interpreted as sign of Kramp-Karrenbauer' willingness to build bridges to the defeated conservatives around her opponents Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn.

In November 2022, Paul Ziemiak was appointed by Hendrik Wust as Secretary General of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia.