Philipp Lengsfeld
Appearance
Philipp Lengsfeld | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 22 September 2013 – 24 September 2017 | |
Constituency | Berlin-Mitte |
Personal details | |
Born | East Berlin, East Germany | 21 March 1972
Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens (1995–2001) Christian Democratic Union (2001–present) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Technische Universität Berlin |
Philipp Lengsfeld (born 21 March 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Life
[edit]Born in East Berlin, Lengsfeld is the oldest son of German politician and civil rights activist Vera Lengsfeld. He grew up in East Germany. In 2001, he joined the center-right CDU.
From 2013 to 2017, he was a member of the Bundestag.
Positions
[edit]Philipp Lengsfeld belongs to the right-wing of his party, the so-called Berliner Kreis.[1]
He opposes same-sex marriage[2] and is critic of Angela Merkels climate policy.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ziele". Berliner Kreis. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ Werner van Bebber, Sabine Beikler (30 June 2015), "Homo-Ehe spaltet Berliner CDU", Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German), ISSN 1865-2263, retrieved 4 September 2018
- ^ "Klimaschutz: CDU-Rechte fordern Abschied von deutschen Klimazielen", Die Zeit (in German), Hamburg, 3 June 2017, ISSN 0044-2070, retrieved 7 June 2017