Vanessa-Kim Zobel
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| name = Vanessa-Kim Zobel
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| office = Member of the Bundestag
| term_start = 2025
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| successor =
| constituency = Stade I – Rotenburg II
| party = Christian Democratic Union
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|8 February 1988|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bremervörde
| alma_mater =
| predecessor = Oliver Grundmann
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Vanessa-Kim Zobel (born 8 February 1988) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-23 |date=2025-02-23 |language=de |publisher=Deutscher Bundestag |title=Biografie der Abgeordneten Vanessa-Kim Zobel, MdB |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/Z/1048318-1048318 |website=Bundestag}} She was elected as a member of the German Bundestag in the 2025 federal election.
Life
Vanessa-Kim Zobel attended the Stader private school from 2005 to 2007, from which she graduated with a university of applied sciences entrance qualification. From 2007, she completed her apprenticeship as a bank teller at Commerzbank in Stade, which she completed in 2009. She remained loyal to Commerzbank until December 2021. From January 2022, until she was elected to the German Bundestag, she worked in private customer consulting at Volksbank Osterholz Bremervörde. Zobel is married to a {{Ill|Berufssoldat|lt=professional soldier|de|Berufssoldat}}. They live with their two children in Mehedorf.
Politics
In 2016, Zobel joined the CDU. In the same year, she was elected to the city council of Bremervörde and became local mayor ({{Ill|Ortsbürgermeister|de}}) of the village of {{Ill|Mehedorf|de}}. Since 2021, she has also been deputy mayor of the city of Bremervörde. In addition, Zobel is an {{Ill|Beisitzer|lt=assessor|de|Beisitzer}} on the board of the CDU district association of Rotenburg an der Wümme.
In 2024, Zobel was elected as the CDU's direct candidate for the in the Stade I - Rotenburg II federal constituency, and she was also given 15th place on the {{Ill|CDU Lower Saxony|lt=CDU|de|CDU in Niedersachsen}}'s state list in Lower Saxony.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-23 |author=CDU Niedersachsen |language=de |title=Bundestagskandidaten 2025 (Niedersachsen, CDU) |url=https://cdu-niedersachsen.de/bundestagskandidaten-2025/ |website=Homepage der CDU Niedersachsen}} During the election campaign, her focus was on the policy areas of finance, economy and defence. She won the election with 36.3% of the first votes cast .{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-23 |language=de |title=Wahlergebnis (Erststimmen) für die Bundestagswahl 2025 |url=https://votemanager.kdo.de/20250223/03359000/praesentation/ergebnis.html?wahl_id=596&stimmentyp=0&id=ebene_-1213_id_2174 |website=Votemanager}}
References
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Category:21st-century German women politicians
Category:Members of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony
Category:Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Category:Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Category:Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029
Category:Female members of the Bundestag
Category:Women mayors of places in Germany
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