Silvia Breher

Silvia Breher (née Lucke; born 23 July 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She has been Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cloppenburg - Vechta since the 2017 federal election. At the CDU conference in November 2019 she was elected as one of the deputy leaders of her party;[1] she succeeded Ursula von der Leyen who had been elected to the Presidency of the European Commission.[2]

Silvia Breher
Deputy Leader of the Christian Democratic Union
Assumed office
22 November 2019
LeaderAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Preceded byUrsula von der Leyen
Member of the Bundestag
for Cloppenburg – Vechta
Assumed office
24 September 2017
Preceded byFranz-Josef Holzenkamp
Personal details
Born
Silvia Lucke

(1973-07-23) 23 July 1973
Löningen, Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Children3
EducationOsnabrück University
WebsiteOfficial website

Early life and family

Breher was born in Löningen and grew up on a farm in Lindern.[3] After gaining her Abitur at Copernicus Gymnasium in Löningen she studied Law at the Osnabrück University.[4] At the end of 2000 she began practicing at a self employed lawyer. From 2011 till 2017 she was the Chief Executive of the "Kreislandsvolkverbandes Vechta", the local farmers' union.[4]

Political career

Breher is a member of the Christian Democratic Union and of her local CDU organisation in Cloppenburg. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a member of the CDU Commission Nachhaltig leben – Lebensqualität bewahren[4]. Since 2018 Breher has been the leader of the Cloppenburg CDU district association[5] and the Löningen CDU association. In March 2019 she was elected leader of the Oldenburg CDU state association[6] and thus member of the State Executive of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairman Bernd Althusmann.

As successor of Franz-Josef Holzenkamp,[7] Breher was selected as the CDU candidate for Cloppenburg - Vechta for the 2017 federal elections. She subsequently won the election with the highest vote share in the country, 57.7 percent.[8] Her constituency is seen as a CDU safe seat, with her party winning the constituency uninterrupted since 1953. In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture as well as a member of the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[4]

Political positions

In September 2017, Breher supported same-sex marriages.[9] In April 2020, Breher co-signed – alongside around 50 other members of her parliamentary group – a letter to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen which called on the European Union to take in children who were living in migrant camps across Greece.[10][11]

References
  1. "CDU: Silvia Breher auf Parteitag zur neuen Vizevorsitzenden gewählt - SPIEGEL ONLINE". www-spiegel-de.cdn.ampproject.org. Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  2. Robert Roßmann (November 21, 2019), CDU-Parteitag: Vom Bauernhof an die Parteispitze Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  3. Robert Roßmann (November 21, 2019), CDU-Parteitag: Vom Bauernhof an die Parteispitze Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  4. "Silvia Breher | Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages" (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  5. Nordwest-Zeitung (2018-05-07). "Parteitag I Kreis Cloppenburg/Löningen: CDU setzt auf frischen Wind". www.nwzonline.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  6. Nordwest-Zeitung (2019-03-24). "Cdu-Landesparteitag In Friesoythe:". www.nwzonline.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  7. Reinhard Bingener (November 22, 2019), Die erstaunliche Karriere der Silvia Breher Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  8. WELT (2017-09-24). "Wahlergebnis Cloppenburg – Vechta: Das Ergebnis im Wahlkreis 32 - Bundestagswahl 2017". Retrieved 2019-11-23.
  9. Kirche+Leben: Silvia Breher – Vom Ambo in den Bundesta, September 2017
  10. Charlotte Raskopf (April 6, 2020), 50 CDU-Abgeordnete fordern Aufnahme von Flüchtlingskindern aus griechischen Lagern Handelsblatt.
  11. Robert Roßmann (April 6, 2020), Mehr als 50 Unionsabgeordnete fordern Aufnahme von Flüchtlingskindern Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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