Julia Klöckner
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| Member of the Bundestag for Kreuznach |
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In office 15 December 2005 – 27 May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Fritz Rudolf |
| Succeeded by | Antje Lezius |
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16 December 1972 Bad Kreuznach, Germany |
| Political party |
 German:Christian Democratic Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | University of Mainz |
Julia Klöckner (born 16 December 1972) is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union or CDU. She first became known in 1995 when she was chosen as the German Wine Queen (Deutsche Weinkönigin). From 2002 to 2011 she was a member of parliament in the German Bundestag and, from 2009 to February 2011, she was a parliamentary undersecretary in the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Since 25 September 2010 she has chaired the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU party and, since March 2011, the CDU faction in the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate, the state parliament. She is also leading candidate of the CDU in the 2016 Rhineland-Palatinate state elections. Since 15 November 2010 she has been on the CDU's national Präsidium (executive committee) and on 4 December 2012 she was elected as one of the Deputy Federal Chairmen and -women of the CDU. Recently, she has been mentioned by the media a possible successor to Angela Merkel, alongside Ursula von der Leyen.
Klöckner was born on 16 December 1972 in the German spa town of Bad Kreuznach. She grew up in Guldental as the youngest child of a vintner's family. After taking her Abitur in 1992 at the Gymnasium an der Stadtmauer grammar school in Bad Kreuznach, Klöckner studied for a degree in political science, Catholic theology and education, passing her first Staatsexamen in 1998 in Social Studies and Religion and receiving her Master of Arts (MA) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
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