Olga Gauks | |
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 Olga Gauks in 2023 | |
| Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin | |
| Assumed office 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1987 (age 37–38) Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (then Soviet union) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Olga Gauks (born 1987 in Alma-Ata) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2023.
Gauks was born in Alma-Ata, the then capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), and grew up in the Harz Mountains from the age of twelve. [1] She is a German teacher by profession. She is a German repatriate, married, has three children, and lives in Berlin in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philology for teaching German from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages "Ablay Khan" in 2009. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Almaty Management University in 2016. [2]
Gauks is a member of the CDU. She ran for the Berlin House of Representatives in the 2021 Berlin state election in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf 2 constituency , but failed to secure a seat. In the 2023 Berlin state election, she won the direct mandate in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf 2 constituency. She is the first Russian-German to serve in the Berlin state parliament. [1]
Since 25 April 2023, Gauks has operated a joint Wahlkreisbüro in Marzahn-Mitte with Bundestag member Mario Czaja. [3]
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