Andreas Mattfeldt
Andreas Mattfeldt | |
|---|---|
Mattfeldt in 2013 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Joachim Stünker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1969-09-28) 28 September 1969 |
| Party | CDU |
Andreas Mattfeldt (born 28 September 1969) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2009.
Political career
Mattfeldt first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing the Osterholz – Verden district.[1]
In parliament, Mattfeldt is a member of the Committee on Petitions, the Budget Committee and its Subcommittee on European Affairs. On the Budget Committee, he serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy[2][3] and the Federal Ministry of Defence.[4] Since 2024, he has also been a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.[5]
Political positions
In June 2017, Mattfeldt voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]
Controversy
As a member of the Bundestag's Budget Committee in 2020, Mattfeldt campaigned for providing his business partner Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen with a €249,000 grant funded by taxpayers.[7]
References
- ^ "Andreas Mattfeldt". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Petitions". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ Markus Decker (12 December 2025), Es geht um 52 Milliarden Euro: Rüstungsbeschaffungen im Eiltempo lassen „Raum für zwielichtige Machenschaften“ RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.
- ^ Kaufmann nicht zum Vizepräsidenten gewählt – Gremien besetzt Bundestag, press release of 26 June 2025.
- ^ "Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle" (in German). Die Welt. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Latsch, Gunther; Wiegrefe, Klaus (17 September 2021). "(S+) Interessenkonflikte des Abgeordneten Andreas Mattfeldt: Der CDU-Politiker, sein adliger Freund und das 249.000 Euro-Votum (S+)". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
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External links
- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in English)