Katrin Staffler

Katrin Staffler (née Mair, born 4 November 1981) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Katrin Staffler
Katrin Staffler in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byGerda Hasselfeldt
Personal details
Born (1981-11-04) 4 November 1981
Dachau, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCSU
Alma materTechnical University of Munich

Early life and career

Staffler studied biochemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 2001 until 2006. After working at the university for several years, she became a spokesperson at HypoVereinsbank in 2015.

Political career

Staffler became member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.[1][2] She is a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on European Union Affairs.[3][4] In this capacity, she serves as her parliamentary group's rapporteur on universities.

In addition to her committee assignments, Staffler is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Since 2019, she has also been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

References
  1. "Katrin Staffler". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. Christian Hufnagel (September 18, 2017), Pragmatikerin mit Herz Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  3. "German Bundestag - Education, Research and Technology Assessment". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  4. "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
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