A lawyer from Bavaria: Andrea Lindholz

Andrea Lindholz (CSU) was elected as Vice-President of the German Bundestag on 25 March 2025. The parliamentarian from Aschaffenburg has been a Member of the Bundestag since 2013. Lindholz was elected with a 43.8 percent first-vote majority in the Bundestag elections on 23 February 2025, and represents the constituency of Aschaffenburg.

Andrea Lindholz was born on 25 September 1970 in Bonn. After obtaining her Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification) in 1991 she began studying law in Frankfurt am Main. Once she had passed the second state examination in 1999, Lindholz practiced independently as a lawyer in Aschaffenburg. She has been a member of the CSU since 1998 and began her political career as chairwoman of the Goldbach-Hösbach branch of the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU) from 1999 to 2003. She won her first mandate for the German Bundestag in 2013. 

Since then, Lindholz has focussed on topics such as domestic security, civil defence and disaster relief, asylum policy, data protection and the intelligence services. She chaired the Committee on Internal Affairs and Community, among other bodies, was a member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel and also chaired the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home.