Kai Whittaker

Kai Whittaker
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Personal details
Born	(1985-04-10) 10 April 1985 (age 38) Baden-Baden, Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
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.

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. "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). 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.