Dietrich Monstadt

Dietrich Monstadt (born 15 September 1957) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2009. He was born in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Dietrich Monstadt
Dietrich Monstadt in 2010
Member of the Bundestag for Schwerin – Ludwigslust-Parchim I – Nordwestmecklenburg I
In office 2009–2021
Preceded by	Hans-Joachim Hacker
Succeeded by	Reem Alabali-Radovan
Personal details
Born	(1957-09-15) 15 September 1957 (age 67) Bochum, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	CDU

Political career

Monstadt has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2009 German federal election.^[1] He serves as on the Health Committee,^[2] where he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on diabetes and obesity.^[3]

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Monstadt publicly endorsed Jens Spahn to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.^[4]

He lost his constituency at the 2021 German federal election but was re-elected on the state list.