Paul Ziemiak

Paul Ziemiak
General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union
In office 8 December 2018 – 31 January 2022
Leader	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Armin Laschet
Preceded by	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Succeeded by	Mario Czaja
Leader of the Young Union
In office 20 September 2014 – 8 December 2018
National Secretary	Conrad Clemens Philipp Müller
Preceded by	Philipp Mißfelder
Succeeded by	Tilman Kuban
Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia
Incumbent
Assumed office 26 October 2021
Preceded by	Christel Voßbeck-Kayser
Constituency	Märkischer Kreis II
In office 24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by	Ingrid Fischbach
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	CDU List
Personal details
Born	Paweł Ziemiak (1985-09-06) 6 September 1985 (age 39) Szczecin, Polish People's Republic (now Poland)
Citizenship	Polish German (1988–)
Political party	Christian Democratic Union (2001–)
Children	2
Residence	Iserlohn
Alma mater	Osnabrück University (no degree) University of Münster (no degree) University of Europe for Applied Sciences (no degree)
Occupation	Politician Consultant
Website	Official website

Paul Ziemiak (born 6 September 1985 as Paweł Ziemiak) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 federal election. In addition to his parliamentary work, he has been serving as the Secretary General of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2022, under the leadership of chairman Hendrik Wüst.^[1]

Ziemiak previously was the party's General Secretary on the national level from 8 December 2018 to 31 January 2022, under the leadership of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Armin Laschet. From 2014 until 2018, he served as federal chairman of the Junge Union Deutschlands, in this capacity being a part of the CDU leadership under chairwoman Angela Merkel.