![Veronika Bellmann Portrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Veronika_Bellmann_Portrait.png)
Veronika Maria Bellmann (
née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...
Wächter; born 20 November 1960 in
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...
, ''then Karl-Marx-Stadt in
East Germany
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
'') is a German
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
and member of the
CDU.
She was
Member of the German Bundestag
Member of the German Parliament (german: Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages) is the official name given to a deputy in the German Bundestag.
''Member of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the federal Bundestag Parliament at the Reichs ...
for
Mittelsachsen
Mittelsachsen ("Central Saxony") is a district ('' Kreis'') in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.
History
The district was established by merging the former districts of Döbeln, Freiberg and Mittweida as part of the district reform of August ...
from
2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
until
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
, in which she
lost her seat to
Carolin Bachmann
Carolin Bachmann (born 3 September 1988 in Freiberg) is a German politician from Alternative for Germany (AfD). She has been Member of the German Bundestag for Mittelsachsen in Saxony since 2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwi ...
from the
AfD.
References
External links
*
*
1960 births
Living people
People from Chemnitz
People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
Members of the Bundestag for Saxony
Female members of the Bundestag
21st-century German women politicians
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017
Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009
Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005
Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
20th-century German women
{{Germany-CDU-politician-stub