Gisela Manderla

Gisela Manderla
Gisela Manderla in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2018–2021
In office
2013–2017
Personal details
Born (1958-02-11) 11 February 1958 (age 66)
Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU

Gisela Manderla (born 11 February 1958) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2013 to 2017 and again from 2018 to 2021.

Political career

Manderla became a member of the Bundestag in 2018.[1] She was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Defence Committee.[2][3] She always contested the constituency of Cologne III.

She lost her seat at the 2021 federal election, as she was ranked 26 on the state list. Shortly before the election it became known that she employed the wife of a high-ranking armaments lobbyist in her Bundestag office.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Gisela Manderla". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag - Defence". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Fragwürdige Personalie: CDU-Verteidigungsexpertin beschäftigt Ehefrau von Rüstungslobbyisten | abgeordnetenwatch.de". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2022.