Elisabeth Motschmann

Baroness Elisabeth Charlotte Motschmann is a German journalist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2013. In parliament, she is her party's spokeswoman on media policy spokeswoman. Throughout her career, Motschmann has focused on women's issues and children's rights. She opposes abortion, supports the ordination of women in Christian churches, and has advocated for establishing a legally regulated quota for women in leadership in the corporate sector in response to women's economic inequality and the gender-gap in chief executive positions in German companies.