Christoph de Vries

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Christoph de Vries
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Christoph de Vries in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
for Hamburg
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1974-12-04) 4 December 1974 (age 50)
Hamburg, West Germany
Political party CDU
Alma mater University of Hamburg

Christoph de Vries (born 4 December 1974) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.

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In addition to his work in parliament, De Vries has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. [1]

Political career

From 2011 bis 2015, De Vries served as a member of the State Parliament of Hamburg, where he was his parliamentary group’s on family policy. Since 2016, he has been one of the deputy chairpersons of the CDU in Hamburg, under the leadership of chairman Roland Heintze.

De Vries became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Hamburg-Mitte district. [2] He is a member of the Committee for Home Affairs. [3] In this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on religious groups. From 2022 to 2025, he was also a member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD. [4]

Political positions

In 2020, De Vries opposed plans to introduce a mandatory quota aimed at achieving equal representation of women within the CDU’s regional and national governing bodies by 2025. [5] [6]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2021, De Vries publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair. [7]

References

  1. ↑ CDU präsentiert Kabinettsmitglieder: Wadephul wird Außenminister - Wirtschaftsressort an Reiche Tagesschau .
  2. ↑ "Christoph de Vries". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag - Committee on Internal Affairs and Community". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Bundestag setzt Parlamentarisches Kontrollgremium ein Bundestag, 24 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Andreas Rinke (July 8, 2020), Merkel's Christian Democrats aim to fill half key party posts with women by 2025 Reuters .
  6. ↑ Florian Gathmann (July 8, 2020), Frauenquote: CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete kritisieren Quotenbeschluss Der Spiegel .
  7. ↑ Marku Arnd (January 13, 2021), Abstimmung über den Bundesvorsitz: Hamburgs CDU-Delegierte wählen fast alle Merz Bild .


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