Simone Borchardt (born 11 September 1967 in Leipzig [1] or Schkeuditz [2] ) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as member of the Bundestag since 2021. [3]
Borchardt studied at the Leipzig University of Education from 1987 to 1992, aiming to become a teacher at secondary level I. [2] [4] She graduated with the first state examination. She also completed further training as a health insurance business administrator from 2001 to 2003 and a master's distance learning program in health management at Wismar University of Applied Sciences between 2018 and 2020. [2] After completing her first degree, she held various positions at Barmer Ersatzkasse from 1992. [4] From January 2012 to April 2017, she was the regional managing director of Barmer in Schwerin, having previously held the deputy position since 2007. [1] [5] After working briefly for Barmer in Rostock, she was a health policy officer at Barmer's regional office in Hamburg from September 2018. [2] In June 2019, she moved to the International Federation, where she became head of the nursing division and management representative for PWG gGmbH. [1] Simone Borchardt is divorced and has two children. She lives in the municipality of Warnow (near Grevesmühlen). [1] She is of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination. [6]
Borchardt has been a member of the CDU since 2013. In 2016, she stood for the party in the Schwerin mayoral election, [5] [7] in which she received 18.2 per cent of the vote and came in third. [8] In the 2021 Bundestag election, Simone Borchardt stood in the Bundestag constituency of Ludwigslust-Parchim II - Nordwestmecklenburg II - Landkreis Rostock I, where she came second with 18.2 per cent of the first-place vote. [9] She entered the 20th German Bundestag via the state list, [10] on which she was ranked third. She is a member of the Petitions Committee. She is a member of the Petitions Committee and the Health Committee. [2]
In April 2023, she was one of two CDU/CSU parliamentary group members to vote to set up a committee of inquiry into the Coronavirus at the request of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. [11] [12]
Within the CDU in 2021, Borchardt is the district chairwoman of the Women's Union of Northwest Mecklenburg and a member of the Union of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and the Economy. [1]
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Ludwigslust is a former Kreis (district) in the southwest of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Neighboring districts were Nordwestmecklenburg, the district-free city Schwerin, Parchim, Prignitz in Brandenburg, Lüchow-Dannenberg and Lüneburg in Lower Saxony and the district Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein. The district was disbanded at the district reform of September 2011. Its territory has been part of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district since.
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