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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (German pronunciation: [ˈanəɡʁeːt ˈkʁamp ˈkaʁənˌbaʊɐ]; née Kramp; born 9 August 1962), sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK,[1] is a retired German politician who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2018 to 2021.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Paul Ziemiak

Volker Bouffier
Julia Klöckner
Armin Laschet
Ursula von der Leyen
Thomas Strobl
Silvia Breher

Angela Merkel

Armin Laschet

Angela Merkel

Peter Tauber

Paul Ziemiak

Angela Merkel

Ursula von der Leyen

Christine Lambrecht

Christoph Hartmann
Peter Jacoby (interim)
Heiko Maas
Anke Rehlinger

Peter Müller

Tobias Hans

Roland Theis

Peter Altmaier
Peter Jacoby
Klaus Meiser
Daniela Schlegel-Friedrich
Stephan Toscani

Peter Müller

Tobias Hans

Klaus Töpfer

Klaus Töpfer

multi-member district

Christian Democratic Union list

multi-member district

Timo Mildau

at-large

multi-member district

multi-member district

Saarbrücken

Annegret Kramp

(1962-08-09) 9 August 1962
Völklingen, Saarland, West Germany

Christian Democratic Union

Helmut Karrenbauer
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(m. 1984)​

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Saarland University
University of Trier

In February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would resign her position as CDU leader later in the year and would not put herself forward as a candidate for chancellor for the 2021 federal election.[2] She was succeeded by Armin Laschet at the January 2021 CDU leadership election.[3]


Kramp-Karrenbauer previously served as secretary general of the party and as Minister President of Saarland from 2011 to 2018,[4] the first woman to lead the Government of Saarland and fourth woman to head a German state government. Kramp-Karrenbauer is regarded as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy and has been described as a centrist. She is an active Catholic and has served on the Central Committee of German Catholics. She is the second woman to hold the office of German defence minister. She was succeeded by Christine Lambrecht.


In October 2021 she proposed for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia via a First-Strike capability as a deterrence against any "provocation" or aggression.[5]


She renounced her Bundestag mandate and retired from politics after the 2021 federal election.[6]

(DGAP), Member of the Advisory Council (since 2023)[71]

German Council on Foreign Relations

Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Co-Chair of the International Leadership Council (since 2022)

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Member of the International Advisory Council[73]

GLOBSEC

Member of the Advisory Council (since 2019)[74]

Munich Security Conference

German Adult Education Association (DVV), president (since 2015)

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(ZdK), member

Central Committee of German Catholics

Member of the Board of Trustees[76]

European Foundation for the Speyer Cathedral

(KAS), member

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

member of the Senate

Max Planck Society

member of the Board of Trustees

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Talat Alaiyan Foundation, patron

German Foundation of School Sports, former Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees

Foundation for the Cultural Heritage of Saarland, former ex officio Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees (2011–2018)

RAG-Stiftung, ex officio member of the Board of Trustees (2011–2018)

Member of the Board of Trustees[77]

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

Personal life[edit]

Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic.[8] She is married to Helmut Karrenbauer, a retired mining engineer, with whom she has three children, born in 1988, 1991 and 1998; they live in the city of Püttlingen.[8][78] Kramp-Karrenbauer is an avid reader[79] and speaks French.[80]