 Maria Flachsbarth

Maria Franziska Flachsbarth ( Füßmann, born 2 June 1963) is a German veterinarian and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2018.Since 2011 she has also served as the president of the German Catholic Women's Association.