Julia Obermeier

Julia Obermeier (born Julia Bartz 7 September 1984) is a German politician (CSU). She was a member of the German parliament (Bundestag) from 2013 to 2017, and was a member of the assembly's defence committee. Since 2015 she has also been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Life Julia Bartz was born in Munich. Between 1990 and 1994 she attended junior school at Maitenbeth, then progressing to the secondary school ("Gymnasium") in Gars am Inn (Mühldorf district) where she remained till passing her school final exams ("Abitur") in 2003. She then, till 2008, studied political sciences, law and sociology at LMU Munich. At the same time, in 2006/2007 she was employed as assistant to the Director for European Research Policy and Innovation with the Degusa Specialist Chemical Company's office in Brussels. After that she worked as a research assistant in the office of the party general secretary. She is a member of the party executive working group on Foreign and Security policy.

Engaging in local politics, between 2007 and 2015, as Julia Bartz, she was village president for Maitenbeth, and from 2008 until 2015 a member of the Maitenbeth local council. One regional tier up, in 2014 she became a member of the local assembly for Mühldorf (district). As at the previous election, the CSU vote share entitled it to 45 seats. Bartz was comfortably elected. She is a member of the Bundestag Defence Committee and an alternate member of the Food and Agriculture Committee.

In 2015 the CDU/CSU Bundestag group conscripted her to the council of the foundation trust for the support of exceptional hardship cases in the Federal Army and former (East German) National People's Army. After heavy losses of the CDU/CSU in the 2017 election, she had to quit the parliament.

Other activities Her own web page lists numerous other memberships and activities, many of a quasi-political character. She has an episcopal mandate to investigate allegations of sexual abuse involving the catholic Military Ordinariate. In 2016, Cardinal Marx, the Archbishop of Munich and Freising, appointed a member of the General Council of the Bavarian Catholic Academy for the ensuing four-year term.

She is also actively involved in other organisations involving welfare and women.

Personal Julia Obermeier comes from a Roman Catholic family. She has been married since January/February 2015.