Claudia Lücking-Michel

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Claudia in 2017.

Claudia Maria Lücking-Michel (née Claudia Maria Lücking in 1962) is a retired German politician of the CDU. From 2013 to 2017, she was member of the Bundestag and from 2005 to 2021, vice president of the Central Committee of German Catholics.[1]

Lücking-Michel was born on 4 February 1962 in Dortmund and grew up in Menden (Sauerland) where she got her high school diploma in 1981. She then studied history and theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, the Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem and the University of Tübingen.[2]

In the 1990s, she worked at the Cusanuswerk, a sponsor of gifted Catholic students and Misereor a catholic development aid organisation.[3]

She is married to historian Andreas Michel and has three children.

Political career

Lücking-Michel joined the CDU in 2004 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2013 to 2017.[4][5][6][7][8][9] In November 2020, she announced that she would seek re-election, but her party didn't select her as a candidate.[10][11]

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