Kai Whittaker

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Kai Whittaker
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Whittaker in 2021
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 September 2013
Personal details
Born (1985-04-10) 10 April 1985 (age 40)
Baden-Baden, Germany
CitizenshipGermany • United Kingdom
Political party CDU (since 1999)
Alma mater University of Bristol
London School of Economics
Website www.whittaker.de

Kai Whittaker (born 10 April 1985) [1] [2] is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the Bundestag since 2013.

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Education and early career

Born in Baden-Baden to a British father and German mother, [1] Whittaker completed his Abitur at the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in 2004. Following his Zivildienst , he studied Economics and Management at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2008. [1] After a year working for Leoni AG, Whittaker then pursued a master's degree in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, graduating in 2010. [1] Between 2011 and 2013, he worked for Herrenknecht.

Political career

Whittaker was directly elected to the Bundestag in 2013 with 53.5% of the vote in the Rastatt district. [3] He has since been a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, serving as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on public procurement, social welfare and the effects of digitization of work. [4] In 2018, he also joined the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development.

Positions

In June 2017, Whittaker voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. [5] [6]

Ahead of the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, Whittaker publicly endorsed Norbert Röttgen to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair. [7]

He is a member of the Union der Mitte, a centrist caucus of the CDU. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lebenslauf". www.whittaker.de (in German). Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Biografien: Kai Whittaker, CDU/CSU" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Kai Whittaker möchte wieder in den Bundestag". www.bnn.de (in German). Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Lars Petersen (November 4, 2014), CDU degradiert eigenen Abgeordneten B.Z. .
  5. ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt , June 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Bernhard Walker (June 30, 2017), Ehe für alle: Wie haben die Christdemokraten aus dem Südwesten abgestimmt? Badische Zeitung .
  7. ↑ CDU-Machtkampf: Röttgen macht Ellen Demuth zur »Nummer zwei« Der Spiegel , December 3, 2020.
  8. ↑ Germany, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart. "Tobias Bringmann von der Union der Mitte: "Wir wollen Lust auf Zukunft machen"". stuttgarter-nachrichten.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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