Andreas Nick


Andreas Nick is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013.

Early career

Before entering politics, Nick worked in corporate finance for Barclays/BZW, Credit Suisse First Boston and UBS both in Frankfurt and London. His most recent positions were as head of M&A at Sal. Oppenheim and as professor of corporate finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Political career

Nick became member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. In parliament, he has since been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the Council of Europe and the United Nations as well as on relations to Turkey, Hungary and South America. In 2018, he also joined the Sub-Committee on the United Nations.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Nick has been chairing the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2018. He has since also been serving as one of the Assembly's vice-presidents. He has also been a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, the Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World and the Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD.

Other activities

In 2019, Nick joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch. Ahead of the CDU's 2020 leadership election, Nick joined other conservatives in calling on Merkel to stay on as chancellor until her term ends in 2021, dismissing calls for her to step down sooner and hand power to the party's next leader.