Philipp Amthor

Philipp Amthor (born 10 November 1992) is a German jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election. In 2019, the Financial Times described him as "a rising star in the party“.[1]

Philipp Amthor
Member of the Bundestag
for Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1992-11-10) 10 November 1992
Ueckermünde
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Greifswald

Education and early career

Amthor was born 1992 in Ueckermünde and grew up in Torgelow. He studied law at the University of Greifswald, on a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). Since 2017, he has been working as a research associate at the Berlin office of White & Case.

Political career

Amthor joined the CDU in 2008. In the 2017 elections he became member of the Bundestag as the directly elected MP for the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II constituency.[2] He has since been serving on the Committee on Internal Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs.

Since 2018, Amthor has been the treasurer of the Young Union (JU), making him part of the organization's leadership around chairman Tilman Kuban.

Following the resignation of Vincent Kokert as chairman of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Amthor announced his candidacy for the role.[3] Amid growing criticism of his lobbying activities on behalf of a private company, he declared in June 2020 that he would not run for the party's leadership in the state anymore.[4]

Other activities
  • Augustus Intelligence, Member of the Board of Directors (2019-2020)[5]

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Amthor publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.[6]

References
  1. Guy Chazan (May 25, 2019), Blue-haired vlogger takes aim at Angela Merkel's CDU Financial Times.
  2. "Deutscher Bundestag - Philipp Amthor". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  3. Amthor steht als CDU-Landeschef in MV bereit Norddeutscher Rundfunk, February 4, 2020.
  4. Matthias Wyssuwa (June 19, 2020), Amthors Kandidaturverzicht: Nur ein gequältes Lächeln Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  5. Sven Becker, Rafael Buschmann, Roman Höfner, Nicola Naber, Gerald Traufetter and Christoph Winterbach (June 12, 2020), Der CDU-Jungstar und seine diskrete Lobbyarbeit: Ist Philipp Amthor käuflich? Der Spiegel.
  6. Juliane Schultz (December 6, 2018), CDU MV vor Parteitag: Amthor wählt Spahn – Konservativer Kreis überraschend ohne Favoriten Ostsee-Zeitung.
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