Charlotte Mann
Charlotte Mann | |
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| Prime Minister of Nidwalden | |
| Assumed office 1 March 2018 | |
| Monarch | Wilhelm II |
| Deputy | Guido von Steinmeier |
| Preceded by | Annemarie Fitzgerald Social Democrat |
| Leader of the Rechte | |
| Assumed office 17 June 2018 | |
| President | Volker von der Leyen |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charlotte Mann 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
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.