Claudia Stamm started with the student union, was with the Greens, and founded her own party. Now the daughter of CSU icon Barbara Stamm is returning to her roots.
Somehow, the paths of this woman have always been unfathomable: Claudia Stamm, daughter of the former President of the State Parliament, Barbara Stamm, CSU. As a child, Claudia Stamm distributed CSU leaflets, as a teenager she joined the student union, and in her late thirties she became a member of the state parliament. Not for the CSU, however, but for the Greens. Which is why it was joked that the apple fell quite far from the, hihi, tree. “The Black Mother and the Green Daughter” were the headlines, and it was really a good story.
Claudia Stamm, the non-conformist, she continued to write this story as a Green Party politician. The fact that Stamm often opposed the course of the party and felt called to higher things soon got on her faction’s nerves. It was not Stamm who became the new parliamentary group leader, but Katharina Schulze – and Stamm left the party because the Greens were no longer left enough for her, observers judged. Stamm founded the “mut” party, which she herself described as: “Neither right nor left, but across.”
The regular story now continues, not across the board, but somehow diagonally. Of the Evening News the now 51-year-old said that she was practically returning to the state parliament as an employee of a member of parliament. Her own party has no mandate, so who will she work for? For Hans Ritt, CSU, no joke. “Hans belongs to my mother’s circle of friends,” says Stamm. She will “not work for the CSU” but for Ritt. And how is that supposed to work? Her husband once said that “it’s no longer so much about a party, but about people”. And actually she always wanted “in the second row”, says Claudia Stamm. “Maybe I’ve arrived at my dream job now.”