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Nina Warken
Warken in 2020
Minister of Health
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2025
ChancellorFriedrich Merz
Preceded byKarl Lauterbach
Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 December 2018
Preceded byStephan Harbarth
In office
22 October 2013 – 24 October 2017
Personal details
Born
Nina Bender

(1979-05-15) 15 May 1979 (age 46)
Bad Mergentheim, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (since 2002)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Heidelberg
OccupationPolitician

Nina Ingrid Warken (née Bender;[1] born 15 May 1979) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Health in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. She has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2013 to 2017 and again from 2018.

Political career

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Early beginnings

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Warken joined the CDU in 2002.[2] From 2006 to 2014, she served as deputy chair of the Young Union (JU), the CDU's youth organization, under the leadership of its chairman Philipp Mißfelder.[3]

Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present

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Warken first became member of the Bundestag after the 2013 German federal election.[4] She lost her seat in the 2017 German federal election, but was the first in line if a Member for Baden-Württemberg resigned. This happened on 23 November 2018, when Stephan Harbarth was elected President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. She took her seat on 5 December 2018.

In parliament, Warken has served on the Committee on Internal Affairs (2013–2017; 2020–2025),[5] the Committee on European Affairs (2018), the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection (2018–2025),[6] and the parliamentary monitoring group for the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany (2021–2022).[7] On the Committee on Internal Affairs, she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on volunteering, civil protection and disaster response.[8]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann following the 2021 state elections, Warken co-chaired the working group on integration, alongside Manfred Lucha.[9][10]

From 2022 to 2025, Warken also served on the German Parliament's body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG).[11]

From 2022 to 2023, Warken co-chaired – alongside Johannes Fechner – the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work.[12][13]

Since 2023, Warken has been serving as Secretary General of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg, under the leadership of chairman Manuel Hagel.[14]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the 2025 German elections, Warken was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led by Günter Krings, Andrea Lindholz and Dirk Wiese.[15][16]

Also since 2025, Warken has been leading the Christian Democrats’ Women's Union; in this capacity, she is part of the CDU’s national board.[17]

Other activities

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Political positions

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In June 2017, Warken voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[20]

Personal life

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Warken is married to lawyer Sebastian Warken. The couple has three sons.[21] In her free time, Warken plays tennis.[22]

References

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  1. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  2. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  3. ^ Gregor Mayntz (7 October 2012), Deutschlandtag der Jungen Union in Rostock: Neuanfang mit alternder Spitze Rheinische Post.
  4. ^ "Nina Warken". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  5. ^ Norbert Wallet (September 24, 2020), Armin Schusters Abgang: Südwest-CDU will innenpolitischen Einfluss wahren Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
  6. ^ "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  7. ^ Andreas Rinke and Sarah K Marsh (28 April 2025), Germany's new cabinet: who's who? Reuters.
  8. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  9. ^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: Arbeitsgruppen Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Baden-Württemberg, press release of April 13, 2021.
  10. ^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: Arbeitsgruppen CDU Baden-Württemberg, press release of April 13, 2021.
  11. ^ Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt Bundestag, 27 January 2022.
  12. ^ Fechner und Warken leiten Kommission zur Reform des Wahlrechts Bundestag, press release of 7 April 2022.
  13. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  14. ^ Alice Robra (19 November 2023), Nina Warken aus Tauberbischofsheim neue CDU-Generalsekretärin Südwestrundfunk.
  15. ^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: BW-Politiker leiten fünf Arbeitsgruppen - Hagel übernimmt Digitales Tagesschau, 12 March 2025.
  16. ^ Steven Geyer (20 March 2025), Nur ein Drittel Frauen, kaum junge Menschen: Wer Deutschlands Zukunft verhandelt RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.
  17. ^ Roland Muschel (24 May 2025), Merz-Vertraute an der Spitze der Frauen-Union Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  18. ^ Rotary-Club spendet für das SBBZ Fränkische Nachrichten, 28 July 2022.
  19. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  20. ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  21. ^ Christian Geinitz (29 April 2025), Nina Warken: Frische Kraft für ein undankbares Amt Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  22. ^ Thomas Schäfer and Joseph Hausner (28 April 2025), Nina Warken gehört zum Merz-Kabinett: Deutschlands neue Gesundheitsministerin hat Familie im Saarland Saarbrücker Zeitung.
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