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Michaela Noll

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Michaela Noll
Noll in 2012
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2002–2021
Preceded byLilo Friedrich (2005)
Succeeded byKlaus Wiener
ConstituencyNRW state list (2002–2005)
Mettmann I (2005–2021)
Personal details
Born
Michaela Marion Tadjadod

(1959-12-24) 24 December 1959 (age 64)
Düsseldorf, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic
Children1
Alma mater

Michaela Marion Noll (née Tadjadod; born 24 December 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2002 until 2021.

Early life

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Michaela Marion Tadjadod was born as the daughter of a German mother and Iranian banker Mostafa Tadjadod, who founded Bazargani Bank[1] and served in the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as his economy minister; later he fled Iran.[2] She grew up with her grandparents in a soldiers' household in the Rhineland.[3]

Early career

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After graduating from Mataré-Gymnasium, Meerbusch in 1980, Tadjadod spent a year in the United States for language immersion then she trained as an interpreter for English, French and Spanish from 1981 to 1982, when she began studying law at the University of Cologne and at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1987 she passed her first state bar examination and in December 1991 her second. After two years on parental leave, from 1994 to 2002 she was a consultant for the women's union of the CDU-NRW in Düsseldorf and in 2001 she was admitted to the bar.

Political career

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Noll first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2002 German federal election.[4] She was a member of the Committee for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2002 until 2013 and again from 2018 until 2021.[5] From 2014 until 2017, she served on the Defence Committee.

In addition to her committee assignments, Noll was part of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with Australia and New Zealand. She was also a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

In late 2019, Noll announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6][7][8][9]

Other activities

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  • German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Member of the Board (since 2018)[10]

Political positions

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In June 2017, Noll voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[11]

Personal life

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As Michaela Tadjadod, she gave birth to a son in 1991 from her prior marriage to an attorney. She married again in 2002 and took the surname Noll shortly after her election to the Bundestag.[2] Noll is Roman Catholic.[12]

References

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  1. ^ Wolfgang Kraushaar (2018). Die blinden Flecken der 68er Bewegung (in German). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. p. 105. ISBN 978-3-608-98141-4.
  2. ^ a b Rubel, Jan (2010). "Verdiente Pionierin: Michaela Noll". Das Parlament (in German). No. 49.
  3. ^ Hoffnungsträger vor, Nervensägen zurück, Cicero.
  4. ^ "Michaela Noll". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. ^ "German Bundestag - Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  6. ^ Diskussion über innere Sicherheit Rheinische Post, 9 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Bundestagswahl 2021: Wieners Wahlkampfauftakt nach Maß". Lokal Anzeiger Erkrath (in German). 18 August 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  8. ^ Garcia, Ria (2021-12-08). "Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Bundestag | erkrath.jetzt" (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  9. ^ Redaktion, T. M. E. "Neanderland: Noll für Scharrenbach: Zeit für eine Frau an der Spitze des CDU-Landesverbandes | Taeglich.ME". taeglich.me (in German). Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  10. ^ Drucksache 19/1845: Wahl der Mitglieder des Stiftungsrates der „Deutschen Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF)“ Bundestag.
  11. ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, 30 June 2017.
  12. ^ "Michaela Noll, CDU/CSU [Biography]" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
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