Olga Gauks (born 1987 in Alma-Ata) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2023. Life Gauks was born in Alma-Ata, the then capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Almaty, Kazakhstan), and grew up in the Harz Mountains from the age of twelve. She is a German teacher by profession. She is a German repatriate, married, has three children, and lives in Berlin in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philology for teaching German from the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages "Ablay Khan" in 2009. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from the Almaty Management University in 2016.
Politics Gauks is a member of the CDU. She ran for the Berlin House of Representatives in the 2021 Berlin state election in the , but failed to secure a seat. In the 2023 Berlin state election, she won the direct mandate in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf 2 constituency, defeating the incumbent Die Linke member Manuela Schmidt. She is the first Russian-German to serve in the Berlin state parliament.
Since 25 April 2023, Gauks has operated a joint Wahlkreisbüro in Marzahn-Mitte with Bundestag member Mario Czaja.
References
External links
Olga Gauks at the website of Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin Website of Olga Gauks Olga Gauks at abgeordnetenwatch.de
See also
List of members of the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (2023–2026)