Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus

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Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus
Aschenberg-Dugnus in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
for Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
24 October 2017
ConstituencyFDP List
In office
27 October 2009 – 22 October 2013
ConstituencyFDP List
Personal details
Born (1959-09-22) 22 September 1959 (age 64)
Eppstein, West Germany
Political partyFree Democratic Party
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Marburg

Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (born 22 September 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Schleswig-Holstein since 2017.[1]

Early life and career

After graduating from high school in

University of Kiel. Since 2001, she has been running her own law firm in Strande.[2]

Political career

Aschenberg-Dugnus has been a member of the FDP since 1997.

Aschenberg-Dugnus was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2013, representing the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district. During that time, she served on the Health Committee and the Committee on Legal Affairs.

In the 2017 elections, Aschenberg-Dugnus returned to the Bundestag. She has since been serving on the Health Committee. Since March 2018, she has been her parliamentary group's health policy spokesperson.[3][4] Since 2019, she has also been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Aschenberg-Dugnus led her party's delegation in the working group on health policy; her co-chairs from the other parties were Katja Pähle and Maria Klein-Schmeink.[5]

Other activities

  • Deutsche Maritime Akademie, member of the Advisory Board[6]

Political positions

Amid the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in Germany in late 2021, Aschenberg-Dugnus was one of 22 members of the FDP parliamentary group who advocated against the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus, FDP". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Gesundheit geht nur gemeinsam". Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Meine Schwerpunkte für die Legislaturperiode". Die Zahnarzt Woche (in German). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  4. ^ "FDP-Fraktion: Besetzung Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  5. ^ Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (October 22, 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau.
  6. ^ Advisory Board Deutsche Maritime Akademie.
  7. Tagesschau
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