Anja Karliczek: New boss of the tourism committee in the Bundestag!

Anja Karliczek: New boss of the tourism committee in the Bundestag!

The CDU politician Anja Karliczek takes over the chair of the Bundestag's tourism committee in the new legislative period. This was announced on May 16, 2025. Karliczek, who was previously the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's tourism policy spokeswoman, will now be responsible for the concerns of the travel industry in this important position. In a previous talk with FVW | Traveltalk, Karliczek gave insights into her goals and projects to master the challenges of the industry that had been shaped by various crises in recent years. [FVW] reports that their commitment could play a central role in the future policy of the industry.

Anja Karliczek was born on April 29, 1971 in Ibbenbüren. After her high school diploma at the Goethe-Gymnasium Ibbenbüren in 1990, she completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank. In 1993 she acquired the completion of the hotel clerk in the family hotel company, which she headed in a managerial function from 1994 to 2013. During her professional career, from 2003 to 2008 she studied business administration at the FernUniversität Hagen, which she completed as a graduate clerk.

political career

Anja Karliczek has been a member of the CDU since 1998 and became the city association chairman of the CDU Tecklenburg in January 2011. They led their political ambitions to the Council of the City of Tecklenburg, where she worked from 2004 to 2014, as a parliamentary group leader from 2014 to 2014. 2013 she became a member of the German Bundestag and had various offices, including the Finance Committee, and as a parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from January 2018 to March 2018. for education and research.

Currently Anja Karliczek has been a decent member of the tourism committee and environmental committee of the Bundestag since 2021, and she is also a deputy member of the finance committee. Her commitment to tourism policies is of considerable importance, especially since she has also taken on the role of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021. Most recently, in October 2023 she was elected President of the Catholic German Frauenbund e.V. (KDFB), another sign of her commitment in social and political matters.