Philipp Amthor

Philipp Amthor (born 10 November 1992) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election.

Philipp Amthor
Member of the Bundestag
for Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II
In office
24 October 2017 – 2021
Preceded byMatthias Lietz
Succeeded byErik von Malottki
Personal details
Born (1992-11-10) 10 November 1992
Ueckermünde, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Greifswald

Education and early career

Amthor was born 1992 in Ueckermünde and grew up in Torgelow. He studied law at the University of Greifswald, on a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). Since 2017, he has been working as a research associate at the Berlin office of White & Case.

Political career

Amthor joined the CDU in 2008. In the 2017 elections he became member of the Bundestag as the directly elected MP for the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II constituency.[1] In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Internal Affairs (since 2018) and the Committee on European Affairs (2018–2021).[2] Since the 2021 elections, Amthor has been serving as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for state modernization.[3]

Since 2018, Amthor has been the treasurer of the Young Union (JU), making him part of the organization's leadership around chairman Tilman Kuban.

Following the resignation of Vincent Kokert as chairman of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Amthor announced his candidacy for the role.[4] Amid growing criticism of his lobbying activities on behalf of a private company, he declared in June 2020 that he would not run for the party's leadership in the state anymore.[5]

Other activities

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election in 2018, Amthor publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.[8] He later endorsed Friedrich Merz as Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor at the party's 2021 leadership election.[9]

References
  1. "Deutscher Bundestag - Philipp Amthor". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 17 August 2019.
  2. Philipp Amthor Bundestag.
  3. Robert Birnbaum (14 December 2021), Union hadert mit der Aufstellung für die Opposition Abreibung für die Ex-Minister Der Tagesspiegel’'.
  4. Amthor steht als CDU-Landeschef in MV bereit Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 4 February 2020.
  5. Matthias Wyssuwa (19 June 2020), Amthors Kandidaturverzicht: Nur ein gequältes Lächeln Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  6. Sven Becker, Rafael Buschmann, Roman Höfner, Nicola Naber, Gerald Traufetter and Christoph Winterbach (12 June 2020), Der CDU-Jungstar und seine diskrete Lobbyarbeit: Ist Philipp Amthor käuflich? Der Spiegel.
  7. Philipp Amthor Bundestag.
  8. Juliane Schultz (6 December 2018), CDU MV vor Parteitag: Amthor wählt Spahn – Konservativer Kreis überraschend ohne Favoriten Ostsee-Zeitung.
  9. CDU-Vorsitz: Philipp Amthor sieht Friedrich Merz als Kandidat der Parteibasis Augsburger Allgemeine, 19 December 2020.
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