Claudia Lücking-Michel
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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
Honors
- 2006: Bundesverdienstkreuz by German president Horst Köhler.[12]
- October 2012: Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Medaille for arts and sciences.[13]