Astrid Mannes

Astrid Mannes (born 2 January 1967) is a German author and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as a member of the national parliament ("Bundestag") from 2017 to 2021 and again since 2024.

For her first term, Mannes was directly elected as a member for constituency of Darmstadt.

Early life and education Astrid Luise Mannes was born into a Protestant family in Hilden, a mid-sized industrial town a short distance to the east of Düsseldorf. She grew up in the town, where she attended the Helmholtz-Gymnasium (secondary school), successfully passing her school final exams (Abitur) in 1986. She received her degree in 1991.

Early career During 1991/92 Mannes worked as a personal assistant to Herbert Czaja who at that time was president (described in at least one source as "the controversial president" Between 1992 and 2000 she was employed as a research assistant in the then recently relocated Bundestag. During this time she worked both for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group as a whole and for several individual Bundestag members.

Political career During 1986/87 Mannes served as chair of the Association of Christian Democratic Students faction in the Bonn Student Parliament. She joined the CDU (party) itself in 1990. she was elected, taking office on 28 November 2007. She was a popular mayor. On 9 June 2013, she received the votes of 54.9% of participating voters in the subsequent mayoral election.

On 27 March 2011 the local party moved her up from place 39 to place 10 on the CDU candidate list for the district council election which, given the strength of party support in the area, meant that she became a member of the district council. She became a member of the CDU Party Executive for South Hesse (Darmstadt region). but eventually re-entered parliament when she took the seat of Ingmar Jung who had resigned.