Petra Nicolaisen

Petra Nicolaisen
Petra Nicolaisen
	Nicolaisen in 2018
Member of the Bundestag ; for Schleswig-Holstein
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 26 October 2021
Constituency	CDU State-wide list
	In office; 24 September 2017 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by	Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
Succeeded by	Robert Habeck
Constituency	Flensburg – Schleswig
Personal details
Born	12 December 1965 (age 58); Schleswig, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union

Petra Nicolaisen (born 12 December 1965) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Schleswig-Holstein since 2017.

Political career

From 2009 until 2017, Nicolaisen was a member of the State Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein for three terms, where she served on the Committee on Internal and Legal Affairs. She also served on the Committee on the Environment and Agriculture and the Committee on Petitions from 2009 until 2012.

Nicolaisen became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing the Flensburg – Schleswig constituency.^[1] She lost the constituency to Green Party co-leader Robert Habeck in 2021, but was nevertheless re-elected to the Bundestag through the CDU state party list in Schleswig-Holstein. She is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.^[2]

In addition to her committee assignments, Nicolaisen co-chairs the German-Nordic Parliamentary Friendship Group and is a member of the German delegation to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC).