Andreas Mattfeldt


Andreas Mattfeldt is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2009.

Political career

Mattfeldt first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing the Osterholz – Verden district.
In parliament, Mattfeldt is a member of the Committee on Petitions, the Budget Committee and its Subcommittee on European Affairs. On the Budget Committee, he serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry of Defence. Since 2024, he has also been a member of the so-called Confidential Committee of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

Political positions

In June 2017, Mattfeldt voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.

Controversy

As a member of the Bundestag's Budget Committee in 2020, Mattfeldt campaigned for providing his business partner Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen with a €249,000 grant funded by taxpayers.