Maria Flachsbarth | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 2002–2021 | |
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| Born | 2 June 1963 Lünen, Lower Saxony, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | CDU |
Maria Franziska Flachsbarth (née Füßmann; born 2 June 1963) is a German veterinarian and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2011, she has also served as the president of the German Catholic Women's Association.