Caroline Bosbach
Who is the woman in the center of the party money affair?
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As soon as she is elected to the Bundestag, Caroline Bosbach is already threatening the end of the career. About a dazzling politician with a famous name and great ambitions.
The father had warned his daughter. “You need to know what to expect”he said to her. “That is a high responsibility. This is a great burden.”
This was said by the former member of the Bundestag Wolfgang Bosbach with Caroline Bosbach last autumn. Shortly before, she had announced her first candidacy for the parliament.
Now, a three -quarters and a successful choice later, the ability of the new MEPs are put to the test. Your CDU district association Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis turned to the public prosecutor and Bosbach has set up an ultimatum. By Friday, she is supposed to explain plausibly how it came about that she accepted 2500 euros in party money. At least so far she has “not contributed to sufficient information”.
Caroline Bosbach speaks of “Dirt campaign”
Because even if Caroline Bosbach indulges all the allegations (indignantly”I haven’t enriched myself!”) and from one “Dirt campaign” speaks, so far decisive questions remained unanswered. For example: Why did she take – like that star And RTL/NTV reported-the 2500 euros from a former CDU employee in cash? Why did she transfer exactly this sum to the CDU when the allegations were made? And how did your choice come on a position in the CDU economic wing?
The answers could decide on the political future of Bosbach. However, they are already burdening the party, which is in the middle of the local election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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The fact that the irritation is so great also has to do with their name: the father, Wolfgang Bosbach, was one of the most famous inner politicians of the Union for decades. The 73-year-old acted as vice-chief of his parliamentary group and the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU state association. And he led the interior committee of Parliament.
Caroline Bosbach is his eldest daughter. It was born in Bergisch Gladbach, near Cologne in November 1989. There she also went to school and graduated from high school. Then she studied business communication in Berlin and Amsterdam.
In general, the capital: like Caroline Bosbach once star told, she went to Berlin at the beginning of 20 to “notify and learn as much as possible” be able to – “Especially from Papa’s life”. She wanted to do his work “up close” experience.
She was finally politicized in autumn 2015. In a book that was published under the title in 2024, she writes how she worked at the Berlin-Tempelhof refugee accommodation at the time: “I experienced young men who showed themselves anything but friendly, grateful or relieved at the breakfast edition, denied the offers contemptuously and sometimes threw our food.”
He said: “In 2015 everything changed.” Two years later she graduated. After jobs in the economy and at a PR agency, she worked as a consultant in the Wiesbaden CDU council group and as a constituency employee of a Frankfurt member of the Bundestag.
In 2021, Bosbach for the first time ran for municipal mandates. And she designed in a book: the then CDU candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet leads the federal government-and she, Caroline Bosbach, is his Minister of Economy.
The book is written like a script, with scenes and dialogues. That fit Bosbach, who modeled in her youth and showed up on a single cover by the hit star Michael Wendler. Later she was often seen on TV in parallel to her political promotion efforts. The list of programs is long: “7 daughters”,, “Grill the Henssler”,, “Who knows something like that?”Quiz duel”,, “Stern TV”,, “The big Germany quiz” and “Let’s dance”.
It not only appeared in entertainment shows, but also in political programs – including several times with Julian Reichelt’s portal “Nius”. There she described protests against the AfD as “Lived anti -democracy”polemized against the “Leadership” The traffic light and positioned itself against almost everything, for which Angela Merkel once stood, whether the nuclear phase -out, the energy transition or the migration policy. For the ultra -conservative portal “The Republic” she wrote columns.
Allegation of the purchase of votes
Her career picked up speed. Bosbach became the CDU CDU CDU. And she had at home in Bergisch Gladbach to the district board of the Mittelstandsvereinigung.
What has only become known now: Before the coordination, Bosbach is said to have tried to buy votes with cash– Which also denies the MP outraged. The allegations were based on “manipulated chat processes” and be “incorrect”claim their lawyers. Also that star there is a chat for one of the alleged buying cases. So far, their lawyers have not provided any evidence that parts of them could have been deleted in a targeted manner.
Either way: In autumn 2024, Caroline Bosbach was nominated in the former constituency of her father as a direct candidate for the Bundestag. In February of this year, she won the mandate with 42.2 percent of the first votes and over the local second voting result of the CDU.
Caroline Bosbach had completed the decisive stage of her political career-until a former CDU employee reported to the police and showed himself: he was instructed in the Bundestag election campaign by Bosbach to provide a false bill for over 2500 euros. After that, he personally presented the money transferred by the CDU personally and in cash to the candidate.
CDU ultimatum to Bosbach
Dem star And RTL/NTV are available and account statements that confirm this information. Bosbach admitted through a lawyer to have accepted 2500 euros, but contested any misconduct.
In the CDU, crisis session follows at crisis session. The party has now given the documents for the process of the Cologne public prosecutor. On Monday, the board of the CDU Rheinisch-Bergischer district of its members of its Bundestag set one last period. “The press public allegations (…) have raised numerous questions that have not yet been answered satisfactorily”he said.
The member of the Bundestag should declare himself again in writing by Friday. The district board wants to meet again on Saturday to evaluate their answers.
Source: Stern

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