Johannes Volkmann

Johannes Volkmann
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 March 2025
Personal details
Born	(1996-12-11) 11 December 1996 (age 28) Cologne, Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Relations	Grandfather: Helmut Kohl, Parents: Walter Kohl, Christine Volkmann
Alma mater	Zeppelin University (B.A.), University of Oxford, St Antony's College (M.Sc.)
Profession	Economist, Sinologist
Website	www.johannes-volkmann.de

Johannes Benedikt Volkmann (born 11 December 1996) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 2025, he has been a Member of the German Bundestag. ^[1]

Early life, education and career

Volkmann was born in Cologne and raised in Lahnau. He is the son of Walter Kohl and academic Christine Volkmann. His grandfather is the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl. After graduating from the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Gießen in 2014, he studied sociology, Politics and Economics at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. ^{[2] [3]} During his bachelor's he spent one semester at Tongji University Shanghai and one at Peking University. He received a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk and studied in courses abroad at Belarusian State University in Minsk and Irkutsk National Research Technical University with the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2020 he graduated with a master's degree in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford (St Antony's College). ^{[4] [5] [6]}

From 2020 to 2025 he served as the Chief of Staff to the Member of the European Parliament Sven Simon, serving as Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs in Brussels. During this time he worked on a revision of the Lisbon Treaty, a revised European electoral law and the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement. ^{[7] [8]}

Volkmann is a practicing Lutheran. ^[9] He lives in Lahnau.

Political career

Volkmann joined the youth-wing of the CDU, the Junge Union in 2010 and the party in 2012. He held several offices in the student- and youth-wings of the party. ^[4]

In 2021 he was elected to the County Council of Lahn-Dill County in Germany through preferential voting and was elected Chairman of the council, at that time being the youngest head of a local government assembly in Germany. In his position he initiated municipal aid deliveries to Ukraine, ^[10] a partnership agreement with the city of Brovary and solidarity marches with Ukraine following the Russian invasion of the country. ^[11]

Volkmann was a closed list candidate for the CDU at the 2019 European Parliament election ^[12] and the 2021 German federal election. ^[13]

In 2022 Volkmann was elected to the State board of the CDU Hessen. ^[14] In 2024 he became the youngest elected member of the National board of the CDU. ^{[15] [16]}

In the 2025 German federal election Volkmann was elected in the Lahn-Dill constituency with 34,4%. ^[17]

References

1. "Deutscher Bundestag – Johannes Volkmann". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
2. "Johannes Volkmann". Zeppelin Universität (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
3. "Senatoreninterview, Teil 1: Johannes Volkmann und Lorenz Narku Laing | futurdrei" (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
4. "Über mich". www.johannes-volkmann.de (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
5. Roßmann, Robert (11 April 2024). "Johannes Volkmann: Der Enkel von Helmut Kohl will in der CDU Karriere machen". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
6. "Deutscher Bundestag - Johannes Volkmann". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 29 March 2025.
7. "MEP Sven Simon". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
8. "Kohl-Enkel will in den CDU-Bundesvorstand". SWR (in German). 25 April 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
9. "Politisch engagiert und im Glauben verwurzelt". www.idea.eu.
10. "Lahn-Dill-Kreis und Grodzisk spenden gemeinsam für Menschen in der Ukraine". www.lahn-dill-kreis.de. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
11. "Ein Jahr Ukraine-Krieg: Dutzende Wetzlarer halten Mahnwache". www.mittelhessen.de. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
12. "Europawahl 2019 - Rückblick". www.cdu-kassel-land.de (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
13. "Volker Bouffier: "Hessen-CDU stellt kompetente Liste für die Bundestagswahl"". Osthessen|News (in German). 13 June 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
14. "Landesvorstand". www.cduhessen.de (in German). Retrieved 27 February 2025.
15. "Johannes Volkmann: Der Enkel von Helmut Kohl will in der CDU Karriere machen". www. sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
16. "Auf CDU-Parteitag: Kohl-Enkel Volkmann in Bundesvorstand gewählt". Der Spiegel (in German). 6 May 2024. ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 27 February 2025.
17. "Ergebnisse Wahlkreis 171 Lahn-Dill". www.hessenschau.de. Retrieved 27 February 2025.

External links

• Media related to Johannes Volkmann at Wikimedia Commons
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