Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Aug 9, 1962(1962-08-09)
Age	62
Birthplace	Völklingen
Country	Germany
Birth City	Saarland
Horoscope	Leo

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Biography

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on August 9, 1962 in Völklingen, Saarland, Germany. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (German pronunciation: [‘?an@gRe’t ‘kaR@n’,ba born on 9 August 1962) is sometimes known by her initials AKK and is currently a German politician currently serving as Minister of Defence since July 2019 , and chairwoman for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) following the leadership election in 2018 following the election of Angela Merkel.

Kramp-Karrenbauer became a member of Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag of Saarland in 1999. She was Minister for the Interior under the administration that was led by Peter Muller; the first woman to hold the office in Germany. She assumed additional responsibilities in 2004 and was promoted to Minister of Labor in 2007 after an overhaul of the cabinet, becoming minister of Education and then, in 2009, she was appointed the Minister for Labor within”the” Jamaica coal-government. In 2008, she was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz. Through her tenure in the state administration, she held various positions as minister of women family, sports and culture. In the process of negotiating an alliance government following the federal election, Kramp-Karrenbauer was a member of the CDU-CSU delegation to the workgroup on research and education policy, headed by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart.

While serving as Minister-President, Kramp-Karrenbauer, who speaks French, was also Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2014. She continued to be a member of the German-French Friendship Group that was set up by the upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments, respectively the Bundesrat and the Senate. Furthermore, as one of the state’s representatives at the federal Bundesrat, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence. Kramp-Karrenbauer was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention to elect the president of Germany in 2012 and in 2017. She was also for a short time part of the CDU–CSU delegation’s leadership team in the negotiations to form a “grand coalition” following the 2013 federal elections. She again played a role in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018, leading a working group on education policy alongside Stefan Müller, Manuela Schwesig and Hubertus Heil.

In 2011, after months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister-President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament, replacing Müller, who resigned to become a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Shortly afterwards, she ended the coalition and triggered an election, blaming the party for “dismantling itself” and arguing that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary “trust, stability, and capacity to act”. Kramp-Karrenbauer and the CDU won the state election soon afterwards, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis; meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2% of the vote. Under Kramp-Karrenbauer’s leadership, the CDU won 40.7% of the vote in the 2017 state elections, up from 35.2% in 2012.

Annegret Kramp Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic. Her husband is Helmut Karrenbauer, a retired mining engineer. Together, she has three children born in 1988 in 1991, 1998 and 1988 They reside in the city Puttlingen. Kramp- Karrenbauer enjoys reading and is fluent in French.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Net Worth

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is one of the richest Politician from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer joined CDU when she was still at high school in the year 1981. In 1984, she became a member of the council in Puttlingen and, in 1985, was elected chairperson of the local CDU association. From 1985 to 1988 , she was also on The regional committee of the Young Union in Saarland. From 1991 until 1998, she was the policy and planning officer of the CDU in Saarland under the environment minister Klaus Topfer. In 1998, she was replaced by an incumbent member of the federal Bundestag and was in office for seven months prior to losing the seat during the national elections that year. The year 1999 was the time she served as adviser of Peter Muller, then chairman of the CDU Parliamentary section within the Landtag of Saarland and later Minister-President. In the same year, she was the chairperson of the Women’s Union.

Annette Kramp was born in the tiny city of Volklingen and was raised in nearby Puttlingen which is both situated in the Saar River, which is also that border to France situated halfway between Saarlouis and Saarbrucken and about 40 km from Luxembourg. Her father was a special education teacher as well as headmaster. In 1982, she graduated high school. She thought about becoming a school teacher, but ultimately decided to pursue a degree in law and politics in Trier University. University of Trier and at Saarland University, where she received a master’s degree in 1990.

During Kramp-Karrenbauer’s tenure as Minister-President of Saarland, she had constantly high approval ratings in the low to mid-70’s among her constituents. She was the most popular politician in Saarland according to Infratest dimap from November 2010 until her departure as Minister-President. Kramp-Karrenbauer was considered one of the most popular state government leaders nationwide.

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Kramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies. Kramp-Karrenbauer supported Angela Merkel’s refugee policies and her decision to let migrants into Germany in 2015–2016, many fleeing wars in the Middle East, but demanded more toughness in some cases. At the beginning of 2016, she declared herself against a unilateral closure of German borders, since she feared a break-up of the European Union. In December 2017, Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked: “Bei unbegleiteten Minderjährigen sollte eine verbindliche Altersprüfung eingeführt werden.” (A mandatory age investigation should be initiated for all unaccompanied minors.) She said refugees may often provide a false age in order to be treated as youths rather than adult asylum-seekers. She added, “Jemand, der seine Identität verschleiert oder Papiere vernichtet hat, muss mit harten Konsequenzen rechnen.” (Anyone who conceals their identity or has destroyed papers must face harsh consequences.) According to her, data sources like mobile phones should be checked, in order to establish a person’s identity. Furthermore, instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes, she said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft. She demanded in November 2018 that after expulsion offenders must be refused re- entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area, and cited the 2018 gang rape in Freiburg as an example.

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Annegret Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer celebrates birthday on August 9 of every year.

In October 2018, following bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re- election as party leader in the CDU convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election. Former Bundestag leader of the CDU and businessman Friedrich Merz jumped into the race immediately while Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after. Kramp-Karrenbauer was perceived to be Merkel’s chosen heir and a continuation of her style and centrist ideology while Merz was an old rival from Merkel’s early days as party leader and was very open about his intention to move the party in a more conservative direction. Nevertheless, the Chancellor did not state her preferences.