Dietrich Monstadt

Dietrich Monstadt
Dietrich Monstadt in 2010
Member of the Bundestag for Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I
In office
2009–2021
Preceded byHans-Joachim Hacker
Succeeded byReem Alabali-Radovan
Personal details
Born (1957-09-15) 15 September 1957 (age 67)
Bochum, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU

Dietrich Monstadt (born 15 September 1957) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2009. He was born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Political career

Monstadt has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2009 German federal election.[1] He serves as on the Health Committee,[2] where he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on diabetes and obesity.[3]

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Monstadt publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.[4]

He lost his constituency at the 2021 German federal election but was re-elected on the state list.

References

  1. ^ "Dietrich Monstadt". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ^ Irene Geuer (June 19, 2018), Ernährungsdebatte in Deutschland: Süße Versuchung Zuckersteuer Deutschlandfunk.
  4. ^ Juliane Schultz (December 6, 2018), CDU MV vor Parteitag: Amthor wählt Spahn – Konservativer Kreis überraschend ohne Favoriten Ostsee-Zeitung.
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