Christian Haase (born 6 May 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.[1]

Political career

Haase first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Höxter and Lippe districts.[2]

In parliament, Haase is a member of the Budget Committee and its Subcommittee on European Affairs.[3] Since the 2021 elections, he has been serving as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for the national budget.[4] In 2022, he also joined the parliamentary body charged with overseeing a 100 billion euro special fund to strengthen Germany’s armed forces. Since 2025, he has been a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.[5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Haase chairs the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group and is a member of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Northern Adriatic States.

Political positions

In June 2017, Haase voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Haase publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Christian Haase | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Christian Haase". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag – Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Manfred Schäfers (16 December 2021), Nachtragshaushalt: Bemerkenswerter Rollenwechsel Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  5. ↑ Kaufmann nicht zum Vizepräsidenten gewählt – Gremien besetzt Bundestag, press release of 26 June 2025.
  6. ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, 30 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Christian Rothenberg (5 December 2018), Kampf um den CDU-Vorsitz: So groß sind die Lager der Unterstützer für Merz, Spahn und Kramp-Karrenbauer Handelsblatt.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Haase