Katharina Willkomm ( Kloke; born 19 February 1987) is a German lawyer and politician of the
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(FDP) who served as a member of the
Bundestag from the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2021.
In 2023 she re-joined the Bundestag taking the seat of
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Alexander Sebastian Léonce, Baron von der Wenge, Count Lambsdorff (born 5 November 1966), commonly known as Alexander, Count Lambsdorff (german: Alexander Graf Lambsdorff) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of t ...
who was appointed
German ambassador to Russia.
Early life and education
Willkomm was born in
Düsseldorf,
North Rhine-Westphalia. After graduating from high school, she studied law at the
University of Bonn, which she completed with the first state examination. After the subsequent legal clerkship at the Aachen Regional Court, she passed the second state examination in 2017. Since then she has been working as a lawyer in a law firm in
Stolberg.
Political career
Willkomm became a member of the Bundestag in the
2017 German federal election
Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter.
The Christian Democr ...
, representing the
Düren
Düren (; ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Aachen and Cologne on the river Rur.
History
Roman era
The area of Düren was part of Gallia Belgica, more specifically the territory of the Eburones, a people ...
district. Since January 2018, she has been a member of the parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and of the Electoral Review Committee. She also serves as her parliamentary group's spokeswoman for consumer protection.
References
External links
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Bundestag biography
1987 births
Living people
Politicians from Düsseldorf
Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
Female members of the Bundestag
21st-century German women politicians
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
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Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025