Emily Vontz

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Emily Vontz
Member of the Bundestag
from Saarland
Assumed office
1 January 2023
Preceded byHeiko Maas
Personal details
Born
Emily Vontz

(2000-10-15) 15 October 2000 (age 23)
Merzig, Saarland, Germany
Political partySPD
Residence(s)Losheim am See, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Trier (BA) (enrolled)
OccupationStudent, politician
Websiteemily-vontz.de

Emily Vontz (German pronunciation: [foːnts] born 15 October 2000) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a Member of the German Bundestag from Saarland since January 2023.[1] She is the youngest member of the Bundestag and the first German MP to be born in the 2000s.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Vontz was born 15 October 2000 in Merzig, Germany, a Catholic family, and grew up in Losheim am See.[3] She completed her Abitur at Hochwald-Gymnasium in Wadern, and then completed a volunteer year at Goethe-Institut in Bordeaux. Since 2021, she is enrolled at the University of Trier, where she currently seeks a degree in Political Science and French.[4]

Politics[edit]

In mid 2020, Vontz became a working student for the SPD in the Landtag of Saarland. She has been a member of the Young Socialists in the SPD since 2017 and since 2018 in the SPD. In the 2021 German federal election she was not elected to the Bundestag, but she assumed office on January 1, 2023 succeeding Heiko Maas after he resigned.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Emily Vontz". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  2. ^ "saarbruecker-zeitung.de". www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  3. ^ "Trierer Studentin wird jüngste Abgeordnete im Bundestag: Das ist Emily Vontz". www.rhein-zeitung.de (in German). 2022-12-18. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  4. ^ "Nachrichten für das Saarland, Deutschland und die Welt". www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  5. ^ "Emily Vontz: "Laut sein für meine Generation"". 17 December 2022.

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