Philipp Amthor

Philipp Amthor (born 10 November 1992) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election.

In addition to his work in parliament, Amthor has been serving as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a lobbyist for the now inactive IT company Augustus Intelligence.

Education and early career

Amthor was born in 1992 in Ueckermünde and grew up in Torgelow. He studied law at the University of Greifswald, on a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). From 2017 to 2020, he worked as a research associate at the Berlin office of White & Case.

Amthor announced 2019 he is working on a law dissertation.

In December 2019, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church by being baptized.

Political career

19th Bundestag

Amthor joined the CDU in 2008. In the 2017 elections he became member of the Bundestag as the directly elected MP for the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte I – Vorpommern-Greifswald II constituency. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Internal Affairs (since 2018) and the Committee on European Affairs (2018–2021). Since the 2021 elections, Amthor has been serving as his parliamentary group's spokesperson for state modernization.

Since 2018, Amthor has been the treasurer of the Young Union (JU), making him part of the organization's leadership around chairman Tilman Kuban.