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Anja Karliczek
Anja Maria-Antonia Karliczek (née Kerssen; born 29 April 1971) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet from 2018 to 2021.
Karliczek was born in Ibbenbüren and grew up in Tecklenburg. After an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Osnabrück, she moved to work in her family's hotel in 1993. While raising a family and working full-time, Karliczek studied business administration at University of Hagen from 2003 until 2008, with a diploma thesis analysing the fiscal advantages of transferring pension obligations from the employer’s point of view.
Karliczek joined the CDU in 1998 and became the party's local chair in Tecklenburg in 2011.
Karliczek has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2013 elections, representing Steinfurt III. Between 2013 and 2018, she was a member of the Finance Committee, where she served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s rapporteur on occupational and fully funded pension schemes and employee shareholding. From 2017, she also served as deputy of Michael Grosse-Brömer in his role as First Secretary of the parliamentary group. In this capacity, she was a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.
In addition to her committee assignments, Karliczek is a member of the German-Slovenian Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the CDU/CSU, she is a member of MIT, its pro-business wing. She also belongs to the Münsterland Circle (Münsterlandrunde) which brings together all parliamentarians from the eponymous region in Westphalia; it also includes Sybille Benning and Jens Spahn, among others.
Since the 2021 elections, Karliczek has been serving on the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. From 2021 to 2025, she was also her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for tourism.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the CDU and Green Party under Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst following the 2022 state elections, Karliczek led her party’s delegation in the working group on research, innovation and digitization.
Since 2025, Karliczek has been serving as chairwoman of the German Parliament's Committee on Tourism.
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Anja Karliczek
Anja Maria-Antonia Karliczek (née Kerssen; born 29 April 1971) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Education and Research in Chancellor Angela Merkel's fourth cabinet from 2018 to 2021.
Karliczek was born in Ibbenbüren and grew up in Tecklenburg. After an apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Osnabrück, she moved to work in her family's hotel in 1993. While raising a family and working full-time, Karliczek studied business administration at University of Hagen from 2003 until 2008, with a diploma thesis analysing the fiscal advantages of transferring pension obligations from the employer’s point of view.
Karliczek joined the CDU in 1998 and became the party's local chair in Tecklenburg in 2011.
Karliczek has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2013 elections, representing Steinfurt III. Between 2013 and 2018, she was a member of the Finance Committee, where she served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s rapporteur on occupational and fully funded pension schemes and employee shareholding. From 2017, she also served as deputy of Michael Grosse-Brömer in his role as First Secretary of the parliamentary group. In this capacity, she was a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.
In addition to her committee assignments, Karliczek is a member of the German-Slovenian Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the CDU/CSU, she is a member of MIT, its pro-business wing. She also belongs to the Münsterland Circle (Münsterlandrunde) which brings together all parliamentarians from the eponymous region in Westphalia; it also includes Sybille Benning and Jens Spahn, among others.
Since the 2021 elections, Karliczek has been serving on the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. From 2021 to 2025, she was also her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for tourism.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the CDU and Green Party under Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst following the 2022 state elections, Karliczek led her party’s delegation in the working group on research, innovation and digitization.
Since 2025, Karliczek has been serving as chairwoman of the German Parliament's Committee on Tourism.
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