Nina Warken smiling in the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag, rows of blue seats behind her — Nina Warken in the plenary chamber of the German Bundestag.Press photograph · editorial use

Parliamentary record · NW–09 · Four electoral terms

In the Bundestag

Elected in 2013, out in 2017, back in December 2018, directly elected since 2021: Nina Warken's parliamentary career runs through four electoral terms and ends — for now — in the federal government.

Group: CDU/CSU
State: Baden-Württemberg
Constituency: 276 · Odenwald–Tauber
Group office: Parliamentary Secretary, 2021–2025

182013–17
192018–21
202021–25
21since 2025

2013–2017
State list

First period

Entry through the state list

Nina Warken entered the 18th Bundestag after the federal election of September 2013 through the CDU's state list for Baden-Württemberg. Her archived biography for that term lists her as a full member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the committee responsible for public security, civil protection, the public service, migration and constitutional questions of the federal state. Biographical summaries describe her work in this committee as focused on volunteering, civil protection and disaster response — themes that connect with her presidency of the THW helpers' association in Baden-Württemberg from 2015.

The most prominent assignment of the term was the first committee of inquiry, which examined the surveillance activities of the US National Security Agency and partner services and the role of German intelligence agencies after the revelations of 2013. She was a full member and acted as the CDU/CSU group's Obfrau — the spokesperson who coordinates her group's line, questioning and assessment in the committee.

The record lists further memberships that rarely appear in public: the panel under Article 13(6) of the Basic Law, which oversees the use of acoustic surveillance of private homes; and the Joint Committee, the small body of Bundestag and Bundesrat members that the Basic Law provides as an emergency parliament in a state of defence. She was a deputy member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and of the Subcommittee on Municipal Affairs. Her first term ended with the federal election of 2017, in which she did not regain a seat.

Dec 2018–2021
Successor

Return

Successor to Stephan Harbarth

On 5 December 2018 she returned to the Bundestag. The seat had become vacant when Stephan Harbarth, deputy chair of the CDU/CSU group, was elected to the Federal Constitutional Court; under federal electoral law the next available candidate on the party's state list succeeds. She thus served the second half of the 19th electoral term.

In this term she was a full member of two of the Bundestag's central legal committees — Internal Affairs and Community, and Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. She was deputy chair of the second committee of inquiry, which investigated the federal government's conduct over the planned car toll (Pkw-Maut), including the award and termination of the operator contracts. She also sat on the commission on the reform of federal electoral law and the modernisation of parliamentary work and on the parliamentary advisory body on the COVID-19 pandemic, acting as her group's Obfrau in both. In the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly she was a deputy member and a voting member of its working group on migration, asylum and integration.

2021–2025
Direct mandate

Opposition years

Direct mandate and group management

In September 2021 she won the Odenwald–Tauber constituency directly. The election also sent the CDU/CSU into opposition for the first time since 2005. In the new term she became one of the group's Parliamentary Secretaries (Parlamentarische Geschäftsführer) — the managers who organise a parliamentary group's business in plenary and its negotiations with the other groups. Her committee role shifted accordingly: she was a deputy member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and of the Legal Affairs Committee.

In January 2022 the Bundestag elected her as one of the CDU/CSU's members of the Judicial Appointments Committee, which, together with the responsible federal minister, selects judges for the five federal supreme courts. From 2023 she combined her parliamentary role with the post of Secretary General of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg.

Since 2025
Direct mandate

Current term

From the benches to the government bench

Re-elected in Odenwald–Tauber in February 2025, she holds a constituency mandate in the 21st Bundestag. Her role as Parliamentary Secretary ended in 2025, and on 6 May 2025 she joined the federal government as Federal Minister of Health. Since 29 July 2026 she has been Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery. Having already been sworn in as a federal minister in 2025, she did not take a new oath; on 8 September 2026 the Bundestag swore in only the two newly appointed ministers, Carsten Linnemann and Steffen Bilger.

As a minister she remains a Member of the Bundestag and votes in plenary, but she now addresses the house from the government bench — introducing bills, answering in government question time and defending her department's budget. Those appearances are documented on Parliamentary work and Speeches.

Diagram

From constituency to federal executive

The diagram traces the institutional stations of her career, from the voters of one constituency to the centre of government. Each step adds a different type of accountability; none replaces the one before — she is still the member for Odenwald–Tauber.

Original diagram. Dates from the Federal Government CV and Bundestag biographies.

Representation

List member, constituency member

The two halves of her career in the Bundestag differ in one structural respect. From 2013 to 2021 she held list mandates: her seat depended on the CDU's second-vote result in Baden-Württemberg and her position on the state list. Since 2021 she has held a constituency mandate, won by plurality in Odenwald–Tauber. In everyday parliamentary life the two kinds of member have identical rights, but a constituency member has a defined territory and electorate to answer to.

For a member who is also in the government, the constituency is a counterweight to the logic of the ministry and the Chancellery: a fixed group of voters who will judge the member at the next election. The territory and the electoral system are explained on Constituency; her years in town and district councils on Local politics.