1. Philipp Amthor was born on 10 November 1992 and is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election.
18 Facts About Philipp Amthor
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Philipp Amthor studied law at the University of Greifswald, on a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Philipp Amthor announced 2019 he is working on a law dissertation.
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Since the 2021 elections, Philipp Amthor has been serving as his parliamentary group's spokesperson for state modernization.
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Since 2018, Philipp Amthor has been the treasurer of the Young Union, making him part of the organization's leadership around chairman Tilman Kuban.
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Philipp Amthor is a member of the state executive committee of the Mittelstands-Union Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a member of the federal executive committee of the East and Central German Association of the CDU.
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Until June 2020, Philipp Amthor was a member of the 1st investigative committee of the 19th legislative period of the German Bundestag.
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Since 2021, Philipp Amthor has been a member of the Modern State Commission of the CDU Basic Program Commission.
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In March 2021, Philipp Amthor was elected to first place on the list of the CDU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the 2021 federal election.
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In July 2021, a photo of Philipp Amthor taken during the horse festival Szczecin Lagoon caused a stir.
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Via Instagram, Philipp Amthor later apologized for the photo posted by one of the men, noting that he would not have taken the photo if he had noticed the inscription on the T-shirt.
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Philipp Amthor is a full member of the Committee on the Interior and Homeland and a deputy member of the Joint Committee, Committee on Election Scrutiny, Immunity and Rules of Procedure and the Legal Affairs Committee.
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On 14 May 2022, Philipp Amthor was elected to succeed Franz-Robert Liskow as chairman of the CDU district association of Vorpommern-Greifswald.
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In 2020, German news magazine Der Spiegel published a story detailed Philipp Amthor's lobbying efforts with chancellor Angela Merkel for the American-German company.
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Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2018, Philipp Amthor publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Merkel as the party's chair.
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Philipp Amthor later endorsed Friedrich Merz as Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor at the party's 2021 leadership election.
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Philipp Amthor is considered part of the conservative wing of the CDU, having come out against gender mainstreaming, abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
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Philipp Amthor is particularly known for his frequent use of the word Schabernack, a word that approximately translates to "jokery" or "tomfoolery".