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Olav Gutting

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Olav Gutting
MdB
Gutting in 2009
Incumbent
Assumed office
17 October 2002
Preceded byConstituency established
Personal details
Born (1970-10-14) 14 October 1970 (age 55)
Bruchsal, West Germany
(now Germany)
PartyChristian Democratic Union
Children1
EducationUniversity of Mannheim
Stetson University
Heidelberg University

Olav Steffen Gutting (born 14 October 1970) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2002.

Early life and education

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Gutting was born 1970 in the West German town of Bruchsal and studied jurisprudence at the University of Mannheim.[1]

Political career

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In 2001 Gutting entered the CDU and became already in 2002 nominee of his party in the electoral ward of Bruchsal – Schwetzingen. He has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2002 elections, representing Bruchsal – Schwetzingen.[2]

In parliament, Gutting has been serving on the Finance Committee. In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the so-called solidarity surcharge (Solidaritätszuschlag or Soli).[3] In 2026, he also joined the Budget Committee.[4]

Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Gutting was part of the leadership from 2013 to 2021, under successive chairmen Volker Kauder (2013-2018) and Ralph Brinkhaus (2018–2021). He was one of the MPs who voted for Brinkhaus to oust Kauder in 2018.[5] Later that year, he ran for the post of deputy chairman but lost against Andreas Jung.[6][7]

Other activities

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Corporate boards

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  • Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund (KENFO), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2022)[8]
  • KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (since 2019)[9]
  • Volksbank Kraichgau, Member of the Supervisory Board[10]

Non-profit organizations

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Political positions

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Within the CDU, Gutting is regarded as critic of Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to enter into a coalition government with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) after the 2017 elections.[13] In June 2017, he voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[14] In early 2020, he co-founded an informal cross-party group of MPs from the CDU, CSU and FDP parties who opposed a potential coalition government between CDU/CSU and the Green Party.[15]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election, Gutting publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair;[16] he later also expressed support for a candidacy of Jens Spahn.[17]

For several years, Gutting has been among the members of the Union parliamentary group who were accused of lobbying on behalf of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev.[18][19][20]

References

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  1. ↑ "Deutscher Bundestag - Olav Gutting". Deutscher Bundestag.
  2. ↑ "Olav Gutting". CDU/CSU-Fraktion.
  3. ↑ Christian Ramthun (1 February 2022), Union erhöht den Druck: Das Soli-Problem des Christian Lindner Wirtschaftswoche.
  4. ↑ Daniel Streib (7 October 2026), Das ist der Nachfolger von Jens Spahn im Haushaltsausschuss Badische Neueste Nachrichten.
  5. ↑ Guy Chazan (September 26, 2018), Merkel’s loss of right-hand man represents unprecedented revolt Financial Times.
  6. ↑ Beate Tenfelde (October 9, 2018), Wieder eine Kampfkandidatur: Ein Hauch von Anarchie in der CDU Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
  7. ↑ Andreas Jung zum neuen Unionsfraktions-Vize gewählt Der Spiegel, October 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ Governance Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund (KENFO).
  9. ↑ 2018 Annual Report: Report of the Board of Supervisory Directors Archived 2019-12-10 at the Wayback Machine KfW.
  10. ↑ Olav Gutting Bundestag.
  11. ↑ Political Advisory Board Archived 2022-07-26 at the Wayback Machine German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW).
  12. ↑ Olav Gutting Bundestag.
  13. ↑ Guy Chazan (February 7, 2018), German conservatives smart at coalition concessions Financial Times.
  14. ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  15. ↑ „Liberal-konservativer Kreis“: Bundestagsabgeordnete bilden neues Forum[permanent dead link] Deutschlandfunk, January 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ Walter Serif (September 12, 2020), „Ich werde Merz wählen“ Mannheimer Morgen.
  17. ↑ Lukas Eberle, Florian Gathmann, Christoph Hickmann, Timo Lehmann, Veit Medick and Sabrina Winter (October 9, 2020), Kampf um CDU-Parteivorsitz: "Hinter Spahn können sich alle versammeln" Der Spiegel.
  18. ↑ "How an Authoritarian Regime Infiltrated a Government in the Heart of Europe". Vice.com. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  19. ↑ "Aserbaidschan-Affäre belastet CDU Karlsruhe-Land: Von der Stutensee-Mafia zur Baku-Connection". Badische Neueste Nachrichten (in German). 13 March 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  20. ↑ Daniel Streib (28 March 2021), Aserbaidschan-Affäre: CDU-Abgeordneter Gutting räumt Kontakt zu Lobby-Firma ein und weist Vorwürfe zurück Badische Neueste Nachrichten.
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