Charlotte Mann

Her Excellency Charlotte Mann MP
Prime Minister of Nidwalden
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 March 2018
Monarch	Wilhelm II
Deputy	Guido von Steinmeier
Preceded by	Annemarie Fitzgerald Social Democrat
Leader of the Rechte
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 June 2018
President	Volker von der Leyen
Personal details
Born	Charlotte Mann (1964-02-29) 29 February 1964 Cologne, Nidwalden
Political party	Rechte
Spouse	Wolfgan Schnarrenberger
Children	2
Education	University of Cologne Bremen-Nassau University
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Charlotte Mann (born 29 February 1964) is a Nidwaldester politician serving as Prime Minister of Nidwalden since 1 March 2018. She is leader of the Rechte Party since the internal elections of the party in June, 2018 and acted as member of the County Council of Rhine between 1995 to 2002; in her last term in the Council, Charlotte was elected as chairman and in 2006 was elected mayor of the city of Cologne.

Charlotte was born in the capital city of Nidwalden, Cologne, in the bosom of a political family leader of the Rechte. Her father was great-grandson of the former Prime Minister of Nidwalden Hildegard Mann and great-great-grandson of the also former Prime Minister of Nidwalden and most well-known figure of the Nidwaldester politics, Ludwig Mann. As part of the Mann family, Charlotte followed the political direction of these political figures; since young she was member of the Young Rechte and showed a great opposition to the liberal-conservatives ideals that the party took after the Kristensen-Hartling Era, referring to them many times during interviews as exported doctrines from the Nationalist Party that are found far from the principles of the Rechte. During her youth, Charlotte studied Political Sciences at the University of Cologne and International Relations at the Bremen-Nassau University, graduating from both with summa cum laude, the highest honors in Nidwalden.

Following the national elections in 2002 and the massive defeat of the Rechte against the Social Democrats, Charlotte was elected leader of her party and was advocated to solve the situation by leaving on a side the factions found more at the right of the political spectrum. Charlotte Mann has criticised past coalitions made with the Nationalist and Die Demokraten parties and during the elections of 2018, she has stated that the Rechte should find more points for a coalition with the Social Democrats rather than with the Whites or Democrats. Her administration between 2018-2022 was marked by the rise of tension between the Lorecian Community and Belka after reports of an ethnic cleaning happening with Belkan invasion to Arstotzka. Charlotte Mann is the sixth woman to be Prime Minister of Nidwalden and at the moment, she is the only woman acting as Head of Government in the Lorecian Community.

Early life

During most of her life in Cologne, Charlotte lived in the neighbourhood of Limpertsberg.

Charlotte was born Charlotte Mann Adaktusson in 1964, in Cologne, Nidwalden. Daughter of Helge Mann, former Nidwaldester parliamentarian of the Rechte, born in Feldkirch, Nidwalden and Inger Adaktusson, a retired Scanonian diplomat. She has two siblings, an younger brother, Frederick Mann, Nidwaldester tennis and polo player and Margarethe Mann, who is older than both and is a well-known artist and doctor. During most of youth, Charlotte and her brothers lived between Cologne and Kristianstad, Scanonia where the three attended public schools and played sports. At the her age of 17, Inger Adaktusson was offered the position of Scanonian Ambassador in Cologne and the family moved there to stay where Helge Mann made a comeback to the politics in the Rechte and was elected to be part of the Nidwaldester Parliament, a position that maintained for several administrations.

Charlotte has stated several times the position that religion has in her life. During an interview in 2018 she said that during most of her years as a teen, religion played a key role in her relations and formation as a person with values; Charlotte was part of a group of young Christians of the Church of Scanonia between her 15-17 years old but after moving back to Nidwalden, she left the group and did not join another one in her new home. However, she kept attending to ocasional masses at the St Ursula's Church.

With the involvement of her father in the politics of Nidwalden, Charlotte felt attracted by them and rapidly started to get closer to student movements of the time, most of them associated to the Green Party that was becoming more popular in the political scene of the country. During her last years of high-school and under the advises of her father, Charlotte started to move in direction of the Rechte and was one of the first members of the party's young wing. However, the Ludwigist ideals of Charlotte were in that time found closer to the Social Democrats than to the Rechte.

Prime Minister of Nidwalden

Charlotte Mann talking with the press after the release of results of the ballotage in the 2018 national elections.

On 1 March 2018 Charlotte Mann assumed the office of the Prime Minister of Nidwalden after an tough election and later ballotage against the Social Democrat Party, which resulted in a 55% of the votes. The elections concluded seven continuous Social Democrat administrations that started in 1990 in what was seen by many as a comeback of the right to Nidwalden after the 1986 Nationalist government, however Charlotte, after the presentation of the pragmatic lines in the Parliament during her investiture, she received a large support from Social Democrat parliamentarians.

The government is directed to continue the large social expenditure started Social Democrat Party. Charlotte has stated the intentions of continuing developing the decentralisation of government offices from the capital Cologne; during the investiture of her cabinet, Charlotte also received the support of the Green Party after the presentation of the measures that are going to be taken in environmental subject, such as the introduction of taxes in environmentally unfriendly goods and services and the larger subsidies to those willing to switch business into more eco-friendly ones. Charlotte appointed Margot von Bendersnach to be the Minister of Energy, Transport and Communications and set the bases of her work in continuing the change in the production of energy by green and renewable methods.

Policies

Lorecian Community and foreign policy

Charlotte has maintained the traditional excellent relations of Nidwalden with the Lorecian Community and the members of the organisation. Her government is focused on strengthening the Lorecian cooperation and international trade to continuing developing the Nidwaldester economy.

Awards and honours

National honours

• Nidwalden: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Nidwalden