Veronika Maria Bellmann ( née Wächter; born 20 November 1960 in Chemnitz, ''then Karl-Marx-Stadt in

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'') is a German

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and member of the CDU. She was Member of the German Bundestag for

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from 2002 until

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, in which she lost her seat to

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from the AfD.

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