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Nikolas Löbel
Nikolas Löbel (born 17 May 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. He resigned in March 2021.
In 2012, Löbel was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany.
Löbel became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election, representing the Mannheim district. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the European Union's Eastern Partnership.
In March 2021, Der Spiegel revealed that a company Löbel owned had earned a €250,000 commission by acting as a middleman between a mask supplier in Baden-Württemberg and two private, China related companies in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Facing public pressure, he subsequently resigned from his parliamentary seat and announced that he was retiring from politics.
Following the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state election, Löbel supported the formation of a coalition government of the Green Party and the Christian Democrats under Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, the first state-level government of the two parties to be headed by a member of the Green Party in German history.
Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2021, Löbel publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.
As chairman of the Baden-Württemberg Young Union, Nikolas Löbel came under criticism from both the CDU and Amnesty International, for a planned sponsorship of 2,000 euros by a student network from Azerbaijan at the state parliament of the Baden-Württembe Young Union in 2012, since the student network in question was funded by Azerbaijani state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR and other Azerbaijani companies with ties to its autocratic leader - Ilham Aliyev, who's been criticized for continued and serious violations of human rights. As a result, the sponsorship fell through.
In March 2021 several Bundestag members of the ruling Union coalition became subjects of criminal investigations on the initial suspicion of corruption, for receiving payments from the Azerbaijani Laundromat money laundering scheme, while others were implicated in allegations of corrupt lobbying practices known as "Caviar diplomacy" in the European Council or what became known as the "Azerbaijan affair" (German: Aserbaidschan-Affäre) in Germany.
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Nikolas Löbel
Nikolas Löbel (born 17 May 1986) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2021. He resigned in March 2021.
In 2012, Löbel was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany.
Löbel became a member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election, representing the Mannheim district. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the European Union's Eastern Partnership.
In March 2021, Der Spiegel revealed that a company Löbel owned had earned a €250,000 commission by acting as a middleman between a mask supplier in Baden-Württemberg and two private, China related companies in the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Facing public pressure, he subsequently resigned from his parliamentary seat and announced that he was retiring from politics.
Following the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state election, Löbel supported the formation of a coalition government of the Green Party and the Christian Democrats under Minister-President Winfried Kretschmann, the first state-level government of the two parties to be headed by a member of the Green Party in German history.
Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2021, Löbel publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.
As chairman of the Baden-Württemberg Young Union, Nikolas Löbel came under criticism from both the CDU and Amnesty International, for a planned sponsorship of 2,000 euros by a student network from Azerbaijan at the state parliament of the Baden-Württembe Young Union in 2012, since the student network in question was funded by Azerbaijani state-owned oil and gas company SOCAR and other Azerbaijani companies with ties to its autocratic leader - Ilham Aliyev, who's been criticized for continued and serious violations of human rights. As a result, the sponsorship fell through.
In March 2021 several Bundestag members of the ruling Union coalition became subjects of criminal investigations on the initial suspicion of corruption, for receiving payments from the Azerbaijani Laundromat money laundering scheme, while others were implicated in allegations of corrupt lobbying practices known as "Caviar diplomacy" in the European Council or what became known as the "Azerbaijan affair" (German: Aserbaidschan-Affäre) in Germany.
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