Silvia Breher


Silvia Breher is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union. She has been Member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Cloppenburg - Vechta since the 2017 federal election. At the CDU conference in November 2019 she was elected as one of the deputy leaders of her party; she succeeded Ursula von der Leyen who had been elected to the Presidency of the European Commission.

Early life and family

Breher was born in Löningen and grew up on a farm in Lindern. After gaining her Abitur at Copernicus Gymnasium in Löningen she studied Law at the Osnabrück University. At the end of 2000 she began practicing at a self employed lawyer. From 2011 till 2017 she was the Chief Executive of the "Kreislandsvolkverbandes Vechta", the local farmers' union.

Political career

Breher is a member of the Christian Democratic Union and of her local CDU organisation in Cloppenburg. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a member of the CDU Commission Nachhaltig leben – Lebensqualität bewahren. Since 2018 Breher has been the leader of the Cloppenburg CDU district association and the Löningen CDU association. In March 2019 she was elected leader of the Oldenburg CDU state association and thus member of the State Executive of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of chairman Bernd Althusmann.
As successor of Franz-Josef Holzenkamp, Breher was selected as the CDU candidate for Cloppenburg - Vechta for the 2017 federal elections. She subsequently won the election with the highest vote share in the country, 57.7 percent. Her constituency is seen as a CDU safe seat, with her party winning the constituency uninterrupted since 1953. In parliament, she is a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture as well as a member of the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.