Martin Patzelt

Martin Patzelt (born 23 July 1947) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg since 2013.

Martin Patzelt
Martin Patzelt in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1947-07-23) 23 July 1947
Frankfurt (Oder), West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Political career

Patzelt first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[1] He has since been a member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[2][3]

Following the 2017 elections, Patzelt announced that he would not stand in the 2021 elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Political positions

In June 2017, Patzelt voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[4]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Patzelt publicly opposed Friedrich Merz’s candidacy to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.[5] In 2019, he joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by Merz and Roland Koch.[6]

In September 2020, Patzelt was one of 15 members of his parliamentary group who joined Norbert Röttgen in writing an open letter to Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer which called on Germany and other EU counties to take in 5000 immigrants who were left without shelter after fires gutted the overcrowded Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.[7]

References
  1. "Martin Patzelt". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  2. "German Bundestag - Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. "German Bundestag - Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  4. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  5. Igor Göldner (November 5, 2018), CDU-Vorsitz: Patzelt warnt vor Wahl von Merz Märkische Allgemeine.
  6. Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  7. Ellen Hasenkamp and Stefan Kegel (September 11, 2020), [https://www.tagblatt.de/Nachrichten/Rufe-nach-Aufnahme-von-Fluechtlingen-werden-lauter-471159.html Brandkatastrophe: Rufe nach Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen werden lauterSchwäbisches Tagblatt.


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