Kai Whittaker | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
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Born | Baden-Baden, Germany | 10 April 1985
Political party | Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
Alma mater |
University of Bristol London School of Economics |
Website | www.whittaker.de |
Kai Whittaker (born 10 April 1985) [1] [2] is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and member of the Bundestag since 2013.
Born in Baden-Baden to a British father and German mother, [1] Whittaker completed his Abitur at the Markgraf-Ludwig-Gymnasium in 2004. Following his Zivildienst, he studied Economics and Management at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2008. [1] After a year working for Leoni AG, Whittaker then pursued a master's degree in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, graduating in 2010. [1] Between 2011 and 2013, he worked for Herrenknecht.
Whittaker was directly elected to the Bundestag in 2013 with 53.5% of the vote in the Rastatt district. [3] He has since been a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs, serving as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on public procurement, social welfare and the effects of digitization of work. [4] In 2018, he also joined the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development.
In June 2017, Whittaker voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. [5] [6]
Ahead of the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, Whittaker publicly endorsed Norbert Röttgen to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair. [7]
He is a member of the Union der Mitte, a centrist caucus of the CDU. [8]
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