Valentin Abel

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Valentin Abel (born 7 February 1991) is a German Free Democratic Party politician. He has been a Member of the Bundestag from Baden-Württemberg since the 2021 German federal election.^[1]

Abel was born in Künzelsau and graduated from the University of Mannheim. From 2016 until 2021, he worked at Texas Instruments.^[2]

Abel contested Schwäbisch Hall – Hohenlohe in 2017 and 2021. In 2021 he was elected to the Bundestag on the state list.^[3] In parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and the Committee on Petitions.^[4] He is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on cycling.^[5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Abel is part of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

• Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council (since 2022)^[6]