Cornelia Seibeld

Seibeld grew up in the West Berlin neighbourhood of Schöneberg and attended the Barnim and Fläming elementary schools. She graduated from the Walter-Rathenau-Gymnasium in 1994. Afterwards she studied law at the Free University of Berlin until 1999 and, after completing her law examinations in 1999 and 2001, began working as a lawyer in 2002. She specialises in construction and architecture.[1][2] She has a son with fellow CDU politician Sven Rissmann.[3]

Seibeld joined the CDU and the Steglitz-Zehlendorf branch of the Young Union in 1996. In 2005, she became deputy chair of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf CDU. She was also previously secretary of the municipal CDU associations in Wannsee and Lilienthal.[1][2]

Seibeld was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in the 2006 Berlin state election, winning the constituency of Steglitz-Zehlendorf 4. In the 2006–2011 term, she was CDU spokeswoman for legal policy. From 2010–11, she was also deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group. She was re-elected in 2011 and became spokeswoman for religious policy in 2013. She was also a member of the Committee for the Constitution, Legal Affairs, Consumer Protection, and Rules of Procedure. She was also an assessor in the Abgeordnetenahus presidium.[1][2]

After the 2016 Berlin state election, Seibeld was elected as vice president of the Abgeordnetenhaus.[3][4] She also joined the Committee for Integration, Labour and Social Affairs. She was re-elected both to the Abgeordnetenhaus and as vice president after the 2021 Berlin state election.[1][5][6]

After the re-run 2023 Berlin state election, at which the CDU became the largest party, Seibeld was elected as president of the Abgeordnetenhaus.[7]

• "Cornelia Seibeld". Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (in German). Retrieved 11 February 2022.
• "Cornelia Seibeld". Cornelia-seibeld.de.