Lucia Puttrich

Lucia Puttrich is the daughter of CDU politician . After graduating from the Nidda Gymnasium (high school), she initially studied law at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg before beginning her studies in business administration at the University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen in Gießen. After graduating in 1986 with a degree in business administration, she worked in her parents' craft business before moving into management at a medium-sized paper processing company in 1988. She is Roman Catholic, married, and the mother of two adult daughters. == Political career ==

Puttrich joined the CDU in 1977. In 1985, she was elected to the Nidda city council, where she served for ten years. During this time, she was also active on the local advisory board for several years. On 22 January 1995, she was elected mayor of Nidda in a direct election, succeeding Helmut Jung (SPD). She successfully defended her office in two subsequent direct elections. Puttrich has been a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the CDU's Association of Local Politicians since 1999 and deputy state chairwoman in Hesse. In 2006, she was elected district chairwoman of the CDU Wetterau and a member of the district council. She has been a member of the CDU Hesse Presidium since 2002 and became its deputy state chairwoman in 2010. She also served on the CDU Federal Executive Committee until 2024. Lucia Puttrich served as President and Vice President of the Hessian Association of Towns and Municipalities from 2001 to 2009, alternating between the two positions. From 2010 to 2014 she was Hessian Minister for the Environment in the . In the 2013 Hessian state election, she won a seat via a party list position. In the Second Bouffier cabinet, she was appointed as State Minister for Federal and European Affairs on 18 January 2014. In the 2018 Hessian state election, she won the direct mandate in constituency 26 (Wetterau II constituency) with 29.4 percent of the votes cast. In the Third Bouffier cabinet, she was reappointed Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs on 18 January 2019. She held this office again in the First Rhein cabinet from 31 May 2022. With the formation of the Second Rhein cabinet, she left her ministerial post on 18 January 2024. She did not run again in the 2023 Hessian state election. She thus left the Hessian State Parliament at the inaugural session of the 21st Hessian State Parliament on 18 January 2024. Her successor as constituency representative was (CDU). In 2024 she received the Hessian Order of Merit. == Bundestag ==

On 21 November 2008, she was nominated as the CDU candidate for the Wetterau Iconstituency in the Bundestag elections. On 27 September 2009, she was elected to the 17th German Bundestag with 41.0% of the vote for the Wetterau constituency. In the German Bundestag, Lucia Puttrich was a full member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology and the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. She was also a substitute member of the Committee on Legal Affairs. After taking office as Hessian Minister for the Environment, she resigned her seat as a directly elected member of parliament on 3 September 2010. == Political positions ==

Lucia Puttrich supports the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and publicly opposes its critics. == External links ==