According to a media report, the CDU MP Karin Strenz died unexpectedly - on a flight back from Cuba.
Strenz was the protagonist in a lobby scandal.
Dublin / Munich - The CDU politician Karin Strenz died unexpectedly at the age of only 53 years.
The member of the Bundestag lost consciousness on a flight from Cuba to Germany,
bild.de
reported
on Sunday evening.
During an emergency stopover in the Irish capital Dublin, Strenz's life could no longer be saved.
The background of the trip is still unclear.
The spokesman for the CDU state group Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Eckhardt Rehberg, confirmed the death of his party friend to the dpa.
Karin Strenz: CDU politician apparently died at the age of 53 - MP was part of the Azerbaijan affair
Strenz was recently again heavily criticized.
The Bundestag fined the politician from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2019 because, as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, she was involved in a scandal over bribes from Azerbaijan.
In the course of the mask affair and further involvement of CDU politicians in alleged cash flows from the Near East country, Strenz also moved back into the public eye.
(
fn with material from AFP
)