Cornell Babendererde

Cornell-Anette Babendererde (born 1 March 1971) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). She was elected as a member of the German Bundestag in the 2025 federal election.

Life

Cornell Babendererde grew up in Boostedt. She pursued German studies and history in Heidelberg and Greifswald and received her doctorate in 2003 from the University of Greifswald with a thesis on burial rituals in the late Middle Ages. She then worked as a human resources manager in a personnel consultancy, was a consultant and press spokesperson for the CDU parliamentary group in Hamburg, as a consultant in the economic authority and was office manager for .

She is currently deputy head of the Department for Investment and Funding Management at the .

Politics Cornell Babendererde has been a member of the CDU since 2006. She was elected to the city council of Winsen (Luhe) in 2006 and has been first deputy mayor since 2021. From 2014 to 2020 she was chairwoman of the CDU local association in Winsen (Luhe).

She ran for the CDU in Lower Saxony in the 2019 European elections. The CDU in the Harburg district nominated Babendererde as a direct candidate for the Harburg constituency for the 2025 German federal election.