Ronja Kemmer

Ronja Kemmer (née Schmitt, born 3 May 1989) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2014.

Ronja Kemmer
Kemmer in 2015
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
Personal details
Born	Ronja Schmitt (1989-05-03) 3 May 1989 (age 36) Esslingen am Neckar, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	CDU
Alma mater	University of Tübingen Lund University University of Pavia University of Hohenheim

Political career

Following the death of Andreas Schockenhoff, Kemmer took his parliamentary seat in December 2014.^[1] She was a member of the Committee on European Affairs before moving to the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (2018–2021) and the Committee on the Digital Agenda (2018–present).^[2][3] In addition to her committee assignments, she is her parliamentary group's rapporteur on artificial intelligence.^[4]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition under the leadership of Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the 2025 German elections, Kemmer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Manuel Hagel, Reinhard Brandt and Armand Zorn.^[5]

Since 2025, Kemmer has been serving as deputy chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Jens Spahn. In this capacity, she oversees the group's legislative activity on research, digitization and state modernisation.^[6]

Other activities

• German-Israeli Health Forum for Artificial Intelligence (GIHF-AI), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)^[7]
• Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIN-D), Member of the supervisory board (since 2020)^[8]

Political positions

In June 2017, Kemmer voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.^[9]

For the 2021 national elections, Kemmer endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.^[10]

Controversy

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany in 2020, Kemmer was one of three members of her parliamentary group – alongside Wolfgang Stefinger and Christoph Ploß – who became the subject of media scrutiny after they had accepted an invitation to embark on a three-day short trip to Oman; Oman's embassy covered their travel expenses of 5,466 euros each.^[11]

Personal life

Kammer has been married to lawyer and fellow CDU politician Fabian Kemmer since 2016.^[12]