Nadine Schön


Nadine Schön is a German politician and member of the CDU.

Political career

Career in state politics

Between 2004 and 2009, Schön served as a member of the Landtag of the Saarland, where she was the CDU parliamentary group's spokesperson on research and higher education.

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present

Schön has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections. Between 2009 and 2013, she served on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology and the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on gender equality and the validation of foreign studies and degrees.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats following the 2013 German elections, Schön was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Dorothee Bär and Brigitte Zypries. In 2014, she was appointed deputy chairperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in charge of digital policy as well as family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth.
Following the 2017 elections, Schön succeeded Peter Altmaier as chair of the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from Saarland. In the negotiations to form another coalition government under Merkel, she was again part of the working group on digital policy, this time led by Bär, Helge Braun and Lars Klingbeil.

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

In June 2017, Schön voted against her parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.