Tilman Kuban | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
Leader of the Young Union | |
Assumed office 16 March 2019 | |
Preceded by | Paul Ziemiak |
Personal details | |
Born | Langenhagen, West Germany | 26 May 1987
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Education | University of Osnabrück |
Tilman Moritz Kuban (born 26 May 1987) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2021. He has also been the chairman of the CDU’s youth organisation, the Young Union (JU), since 2019.[1]
Kuban was born 1987 in the West German town of Langenhagen and studied law at the University of Osnabrück.[2] Before entering politics, he worked as a talent scout for football club Hannover 96.[3]
Kuban entered the CDU in 2007 and was elected chairman of the JU in 2019, succeeding Paul Ziemiak.[4]
In November 2016, Kuban announced that he would succeed Maria Flachsbarth and run for a parliamentary seat in the 2021 national elections, representing the Hannover-Land II district.[5] In parliament, Kuban has since been serving on the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs.[6] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on Europe’s relations with Ukraine.[7]
In 2020, Kuban declared that the CDU was “resolved to not work together with the AfD or The Left, whether directly or indirectly."[8]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2021, Kuban publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[9] For the 2021 national elections, he later endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.[10]