Carina Schießl

Carina Schießl (born 19 February 1990 in Schwandorf) is a politician in Germany for the Alternative for Germany and a member of the Bundestag from Bavaria. The Bavarian state returning officer lists her residence as Schwarzenfeld. The Bundestag records her occupation as Medizinisch-technische Laboratoriumsassistentin, a medical laboratory assistant.

The biography published by the Bundestag, which the parliament notes is based on members' own statements, says she gained the Mittlere Reife at the Mädchenrealschule St. Josef in Schwandorf and completed school-based training as a laboratory assistant at the Dr. Robert Eckert Akademie in Regenstauf. It lists employment as a laboratory assistant at the University Hospital Regensburg from 2012 to 2022, and from 2023 until February 2025 as office staff for Dieter Arnold, a member of the Bavarian Landtag.

At the federal election of 23 February 2025 she stood for the AfD in constituency 232, Regensburg. She placed second, with 37,964 first votes (17.9 percent), behind Peter Aumer of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, who received 81,105 votes (38.3 percent). In the same constituency the AfD took 39,770 second votes (18.7 percent). She entered the 21st Bundestag through tenth place on the party's Bavarian state list rather than by winning the constituency. The new parliament constituted itself on 25 March 2025.

In that Bundestag she is a full member of the Committee on Health and a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. Shortly before the election, the Ärzte Zeitung, in a series of portraits of members with a health-care background, quoted her website: she wrote that she would stand for conservative views, use her professional experience for better provision of care and for a review of what she called the coronavirus pandemic, and placed remigration first among her stated priorities, alongside a demand that medical practices, pharmacies and hospitals be able to maintain care at all times.

Early life and education

Childhood in Schwarzenfeld

Carina Schießl was born on 19 February 1990 in Schwandorf, according to the biography published by the Bundestag of Germany. That page states that its biographical details rest on the member's own disclosures. The Bavarian Realschulnetz places the girls' secondary school in Schwandorf that she later attended in the Upper Palatinate of Bavaria.

The Bavarian state returning office's final list of deputies returned in 2025 gives her year of birth as 1990 and her place of residence as Schwarzenfeld. Its municipal site presents the place as Markt Schwarzenfeld. In August 2023 the Mittelbayerische Zeitung described the then 33-year-old, an Alternative for Germany candidate in the Regensburg-Stadt constituency, as being from Schwarzenfeld. In February 2025 Onetz wrote that her roots lay in Schwarzenfeld and that she also kept a residence there. The Ärzte Zeitung, on 26 February 2025, when she was 35, likewise said she had been born in Schwandorf. These accounts do not name relatives or a religion, and the Bundestag biography does not identify a primary school.

Schooling in Schwandorf

The parliamentary biography records that she gained the Mittlere Reife at the Mädchenrealschule St. Josef in Schwandorf. It does not state the years of enrolment.

The Mädchenrealschule St. Josef in Schwandorf, with the entrance marked by the school's name and an older building beside it.

The Bavarian Realschulnetz lists the school as a state-recognized private Realschule of the Schulstiftung der Diocese of Regensburg, at Dominikanerinnenstraße 1, with classes from year 5 to year 10 and, in the directory entry of 16 September 2026, 378 girls and no boys. A chronology published by the school dates a girls' Mittelschule opened in 1916 by Dominican sisters from Niederviehbach. After the order decided in 2002 to close it, the diocese took sponsorship in 2003, a six-year Realschule began that September, and in May 2004 the school received its present name.

In Bavaria the Realschulabschluss, which her biography calls the Mittlere Reife, is an intermediate certificate earned by passing the examination at the end of year 10. The state education ministry says that examination is centrally set in German, English, mathematics and the profile subject of the pupil's elective group. Her profile subject is not recorded.

Laboratory training in Regenstauf

The same self-report says that she completed a school-based training as a Medizinisch-technische Laboratoriumsassistentin (MTLA) at the Dr. Robert Eckert Akademie in Regenstauf. The Ärzte Zeitung also reported that training, without naming the school. The Eckert Schulen describe the medical schools on their Regenstauf campus as including a state-recognized vocational school for the laboratory profession, now taught under the later title. The parliamentary text gives no course dates, but it dates her work as an MTLA at the university hospital in Regensburg from 2012 to 2022, so the qualification came before that employment.

Until 31 December 2022 the title was regulated by the MTA-Gesetz of 2 August 1993. Training lasted three years at state-recognized schools, with theoretical and practical instruction and a placement, and ended in a state examination required for the protected title. A school not attached to a hospital had to arrange that placement with a hospital or another suitable institution. Admission generally required the Realschulabschluss or an equivalent ten-year schooling, or a vocational qualification of at least two years after Hauptschule.

On 1 January 2023 the MT-Berufe-Gesetz of 24 February 2021 replaced that statute, renamed the profession Medizinische Technologin or Medizinischer Technologe für Laboratoriumsanalytik, and kept a three-year full-time course ending in a state examination. An existing permission to use the earlier title remained valid. The Bundestag still lists Schießl under the earlier designation. Because the MTLA employment she disclosed began in 2012, the qualification falls under the pre-2023 statute.

Professional career

University Hospital Regensburg

The Bundestag biography of Carina Schießl, which the parliament states is based on members' own information, lists her as employed from 2012 to 2022 as a Medizinisch-technische Laboratoriumsassistentin (MTLA; medical technical laboratory assistant) at the University Hospital Regensburg (Universitätsklinikum Regensburg). The hospital in Regensburg describes itself as combining patient care, teaching and research in eastern Bavaria, with more than 5,000 staff in 33 clinics, polyclinics, departments and institutes of human and dental medicine.

An MTLA is a state-regulated occupation in medical laboratory diagnostics. On 1 January 2023 the Act on Professions in Medical Technology (MT-Berufe-Gesetz) replaced that title with medical technologist for laboratory analysis. Permissions granted under the earlier law remain valid and count as permissions under the new act. The Federal Ministry of Health calls these professions a technical key function in diagnosis and therapy through activities reserved to them, kept in their previous scope by the reform. In human medicine only qualified laboratory technologists may carry out biomedical analyses by biological, chemical and physical methods, including plausibility checks, validation and quality assurance, and prepare histological, cytological and other morphological specimens for medical diagnosis. Simple quantitative and qualitative tests are excluded. Hospitals and laboratories are among the workplaces. The Bundestag still records Schießl under the older designation MTLA.

The biography dates the hospital post through 2022 and gives no reason for its end. The Regensburg newspaper idowa has linked the departure to COVID-19 vaccination rules. On 2 October 2023 it reported that she had resigned from the university hospital because of the facility-based Corona vaccination requirement and was then devoting herself entirely to work for the Alternative for Germany. On 12 February 2025 the same paper wrote that she had quit because she did not want to be vaccinated. Those are the newspaper's statements; the Bundestag entry does not document them.

The rule in question was section 20a of the Protection against Infection Act. From 15 March 2022, staff in hospitals and other listed health and care settings had to show their employer proof of COVID-19 vaccination or recovery, or a medical certificate that they could not be vaccinated. Health authorities could bar employment or entry where proof was missing or doubted, and from 16 March 2022 new work in those settings was not to begin without proof. A March 2022 paper by the Bundestag's research services, describing the statute then in force, stated that the duty ran until 31 December 2022 and that section 20a would expire on 1 January 2023. The consolidated act now marks section 20a as repealed. Schießl's self-reported hospital years include 2022, when the rule applied to hospital staff, but the biography does not say whether any authority barred her from the workplace.

Employment in a Landtag office

The biography states that from 2023 until February 2025 Schießl worked in the office of Dieter Arnold (MdL). In the disclosures required under the Members of the Bundestag Act, her occupation before entering parliament is given as Bürokraft (office clerk) for Dieter Arnold, member of the Landtag of Bavaria, in Munich. abgeordnetenwatch.de reproduces that entry, logged on 22 July 2025 as professional activity before Bundestag membership, with Dieter Arnold, MdL, Munich, named as the organisation. The published record does not set out duties, hours or pay.

Arnold, of the AfD, has sat in the Bavarian parliament for the electoral district of the Upper Palatinate since 30 October 2023. The Landtag biography, which it says rests on his own information, also lists him as first district chair of the AfD association in Regensburg. idowa on 12 February 2025, shortly before the federal election, described Schießl as his Büroleiterin (office manager), a different title from the Bürokraft in the statutory disclosure. The paper's article of 2 October 2023, before Arnold took his seat, had described her as then giving her time wholly to party work.

Under the Bavarian Members of Parliament Act, a member may be reimbursed, on application and against proof and within the budgeted amount, for contracts of staff who support that member's parliamentary work, starting when membership begins. The Landtag administration settles the salaries, but the staff are not public employees and have no employment relationship with the Free State of Bavaria or the Landtag office. The act does not identify Schießl's contract. Her Bundestag biography records the Munich post as ending in February 2025.

Party activity and the 2023 Bavarian election

Local AfD roles

By January 2024 Carina Schießl held office in the Regensburg district association (Kreisverband) of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). At a rally the association held on the evening of Monday, 22 January 2024, in Neutraubling, the Mittelbayerische Zeitung identified her as treasurer (Schatzmeisterin) of the Regensburg Kreisverband and as the first speaker, with Dieter Arnold, by then a member of the Landtag of Bavaria. The paper put the audience at about 100 and a counter-demonstration, which police estimated at about 250. On abgeordnetenwatch.de a text she supplied likewise calls her treasurer of that Kreisverband and a Landtag candidate in list place 8 in the Upper Palatinate; neither source dates the start of the office.

Candidacy in Regensburg-Stadt

The Bavaria Landtag election was held on 8 October 2023; the state electoral committee confirmed the final result on 24 October. On 15 February 2023 the AfD Kreisverband Regensburg chose direct candidates for that election and for the Bezirkstag election on the same day. The Mittelbayerische, citing a party press release, reported that Landtag member Andreas Winhart chaired the meeting, that Arnold was again chosen for Stimmkreis Regensburg-Land, and that Schießl, then 32, won the nomination for Stimmkreis Regensburg-Stadt; both were also nominated for the Bezirkstag contest.

The Upper Palatinate list was settled on 25 March 2023 at Püchersreuth, with about 200 members entitled to vote. Onetz reported that Roland Magerl took place 1 and Stefan Löw place 2, and that Claudia Marino took place 3 with 100 votes, ahead of Wolfgang Pöschl (53) and Schießl (33); Christian Pfab took place 4. Only the eight direct candidates were admitted, the first four places were elected, and places five to eight were filled alphabetically. The official AfD result gives Schießl ballot order 8, and Onetz also placed her eighth on the Upper Palatinate Bezirkstag list.

On 22 August 2023 the Mittelbayerische described the 33-year-old, who lives in Schwarzenfeld, as the AfD direct candidate in Stimmkreis Regensburg-Stadt. On 2 October, idowa reported that she was standing for both the Landtag and the Bezirkstag, that she had left the university hospital over the coronavirus vaccination requirement, and that she was then campaigning full time; she declined a city-centre interview, the paper wrote, because she feared being attacked.

Result

In Stimmkreis 305, Regensburg-Stadt, the final candidate table credits Schießl with 10,580 first votes (Erststimmen), 11.8 percent of 89,388 valid first votes. The party table shows the same 10,580 votes and 11.8 percent for the AfD, the votes for its only constituency candidate. Turnout was 70.7 percent (89,878 of 127,108 eligible), and the AfD first-vote share was up from 9.4 percent in 2018. Jürgen Eberwein of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria won the seat with 27,029 votes (30.2 percent), ahead of Jürgen Mistol of Alliance 90/The Greens with 21,273 (23.8 percent). Schießl was third, 211 votes ahead of Michael Schien of the Free Voters of Bavaria (10,369; 11.6 percent) and ahead of Sebastian Koch of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (10,158; 11.4 percent). AfD first and second votes together in the Stimmkreis were 21,678, or 12.1 percent.

In the Upper Palatinate electoral region her combined votes (Gesamtstimmen) were 19,586, eighth of eight AfD candidates: those 10,580 first votes plus 9,006 second votes. The AfD took 110,477 first votes (17.6 percent) and 223,034 Gesamtstimmen (17.7 percent) in the region. Of 18 seats there, it won three, all from the list and none of the eight direct seats, which all went to the CSU. Those returned were Magerl (44,851 Gesamtstimmen, ballot order 1), Löw (36,067, order 2) and Arnold (32,326). Arnold was fifth on the ballot but third by Gesamtstimmen, ahead of Marino (list place 3; 25,342), because list seats follow personal Gesamtstimmen rather than fixed order. The roll of those elected names Magerl, Löw and Arnold for the AfD in the Upper Palatinate and does not include Schießl.

From 2023 until February 2025 she worked in Arnold's Landtag office as an office employee (Bürokraft) in Munich, according to her Bundestag biography and the statutory disclosure of pre-membership employment.

2025 federal election

Constituency Regensburg

The election to the 21st Bundestag was held on Sunday, 23 February 2025, after the Chancellor dissolved the 20th Bundestag and fixed that date. Constituency 232, Regensburg, comprises the city of Regensburg and part of Landkreis Regensburg—40 municipalities as of 31 December 2023, including Lappersdorf, Neutraubling and Regenstauf—with the rest of the district in constituency 233, Schwandorf. It covered 1,389.8 square kilometres and had about 336,300 inhabitants.

Of 250,984 eligible voters, 212,696 cast ballots, a turnout of 84.7 percent and 4.6 points above 2021. Valid votes numbered 211,967 on the first ballot and 212,143 on the second. Each voter has a first vote for a constituency candidate and a second vote for a party’s state list; from this election, a party candidate wins the constituency seat only by finishing first and having that seat covered by the party’s second votes.

The Christian Social Union again nominated Peter Aumer of Ramspau, in the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013 and from 2017, whom idowa described as treating the strengthening of “social cohesion” as perhaps the greatest challenge. Carina Schießl, living in Schwarzenfeld, stood for the Alternative for Germany. The same survey named Carolin Wagner of the Social Democratic Party, from Lappersdorf and a member for three years who stressed education, and Stefan Schmidt of Alliance 90/The Greens, a member since 2017. Also on the ballot were Ulrich Lechte of the Free Democratic Party, a member since 2017; Regina Seebauer-Sperl of the Free Voters, whose theme was the economy; Sebastian Wanner of Die Linke; and Irmgard Freihoffer of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, fifth on that party’s Bavarian list.

List candidacy and campaign

The Mittelbayerische Zeitung reported on 24 September 2024 that, at the nominating meeting of the AfD district association in Regensburg the previous Monday, Schießl had been chosen as direct candidate with 95 percent of the votes, according to a party press release. The paper said the 34-year-old trained medical laboratory assistant wanted to bring that experience to health policy in Berlin, including what she called “a clear and complete review of the excessive coronavirus measures.” She was also tenth on the AfD state list for Bavaria.

On 12 February 2025 idowa wrote that list place 10 already made her treat the election as settled, and called her likely to be one of the few women in an AfD Bundestag group. The profile said she had left Regensburg University Hospital because she did not want to be vaccinated, and was then office manager to AfD Landtag member Dieter Arnold. A day earlier, in an A-to-Z interview with the Mittelbayerische, she said of the governing coalition, “The Ampel has more or less driven Germany into the wall. It is good that it dissolved.” She called cannabis legalization “a big mistake,” acceptable on prescription but not for the general public, and said digitalization had to be pushed forward.

Result and mandate

In the final result Aumer held the constituency with 81,105 first votes, 38.3 percent, up 2.9 points on 2021. The Federal Returning Officer lists Schießl as the runner-up (Erstunterlegene): 37,964 first votes, 17.9 percent, up 9.5 points. Schmidt took the Greens’ 27,741 first votes (13.1 percent, down 2.3) and Wagner the SPD’s 27,626 (13.0 percent, down 3.6). The Free Voters received 11,214 (5.3 percent, down 3.8), Die Linke 9,736 (4.6 percent, up 1.5), the FDP 5,229 (2.5 percent, down 4.5) and the BSW 5,151 (2.4 percent).

Second votes put the CSU on 75,683 (35.7 percent, up 4.8) and the AfD list on 39,770 (18.7 percent, up 10.0), a little above Schießl’s personal total. Then came the Greens on 28,337 (13.4 percent), the SPD on 23,607 (11.1), Die Linke on 14,801 (7.0), the Free Voters on 10,447 (4.9), the FDP on 7,427 (3.5) and the BSW on 6,268 (3.0). Across Bavaria the AfD took 19.0 percent of second votes.

Under the Federal Elections Act as amended on 8 June 2023, the Sainte-Laguë method turns second votes into each party’s seats and then into seats for each state list. In a Land, that party’s constituency winners are seated in order of first-vote share only while second votes cover them; seats still left go down the closed state list. A Federal Constitutional Court judgment of 30 July 2024 kept the five-percent threshold only with the proviso that a party under five percent drops out if its candidates did not finish first in at least three constituencies.

The Federal Returning Officer records 22 AfD members as elected from the Bavarian state list, in list order from place 1, Stephan Protschka, through place 22, with Schießl at place 10. The same list of people elected in Bavarian constituencies contains 44 names, all CSU; three of the 47 Bavarian constituencies have no constituency member on it. The Bavarian state returning officer likewise lists Schießl as elected from state-list place 10, born in 1990 and resident in Schwarzenfeld. Dr. Carolin Wagner entered on SPD list place 8, and Schmidt on Green list place 14. The Bundestag’s biography states that Schießl was elected via the Bavarian state list for the 21st electoral period. On election night idowa reported that, as tenth on the list, she had been sure before the vote of reaching Berlin, and that this is what happened on Sunday evening.

Membership of the Bundestag

Taking the seat

Carina Schießl became a member of the 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany, when it opened its constitutive sitting on 25 March 2025 in the plenary chamber of the Reichstag building in Berlin. The Federal Electoral Committee had determined the final result of the election of 23 February 2025 on 14 March. Section 45 of the Federal Elections Act provides that, after that determination, an elected candidate acquires membership with the opening of the first sitting, unless the mandate has been declined in writing beforehand. At that sitting the Bundestag, which had 630 members, elected Julia Klöckner of the Christian Democratic Union as President of the Bundestag.

The mandate is a state-list seat. In constituency 232, Regensburg, in Bavaria, the final count gave the direct seat to Peter Aumer of the Christian Social Union, with 81,105 first votes (38.3 percent). Schießl, standing for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was the runner-up, with 37,964 first votes (17.9 percent); turnout was 84.7 percent. The Federal Returning Officer’s list of those elected from party state lists in Bavaria places her tenth on the AfD list, and the Bundestag biography records the mandate as election via that list, with a candidacy in Wahlkreis 232.

The biography gives her Bundestag office as Deutscher Bundestag, Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, and links to profiles on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. The AfD parliamentary group’s page for her lists the telephone number 030 227 74526.

Committees and faction roles

The Bundestag lists her as an ordinary member of the Committee on Health and as a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. These are committees of the House. When the Health Committee constituted itself on 21 May 2025, the Bundestag’s account named her among the nine AfD ordinary members. The biography’s committee list includes no other body, and in particular not the Committee on Internal Affairs.

The AfD group also keeps internal working groups (Arbeitskreise), which are not the same as those committees. Its health working-group page places her among the members, and its European Union working-group page places her among the deputy members. On her group profile, a single pair of labels—“Mitglied im Ausschuss/Arbeitskreis” and “Stv. Mitglied im Ausschuss/Arbeitskreis”—covers both kinds of assignment and names Gesundheit, Angelegenheiten der Europäischen Union, and “Inneres und Heimat”. In the page data the European Union line and “Inneres und Heimat” sit directly after the deputy-member label; the link on “Inneres und Heimat” goes to the group’s general members index, not to a working group. She is not among the members or deputy members named on the interior-policy working-group page.

The Bundestag’s page for the AfD group names Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla as chairs, together with five deputy chairs and the parliamentary business managers. Schießl is not on that list.

Statutory disclosures

The Bundestag marks the narrative biography as resting on the member’s own statements. Under a separate heading it publishes particulars required by the Members of the Bundestag Act. The entry for her occupation before membership is “Bürokraft von Dieter Arnold, MdL, München” (office clerk to Dieter Arnold, a member of the Bavarian Landtag, in Munich). Section 45 requires notification to the President of that last occupation and of specified outside activities, posts and holdings. Subsection 5 allows three months after membership is acquired, and three months after any change during the electoral term. What must be published appears on the Bundestag website. The biography page states the same three-month timetable for notifications under the rules of conduct (sections 45 ff.) and adds that an item is published only after the data have been processed and checked for a duty to publish.

Pay for the mandate is statutory and uniform. Since 1 July 2025 the taxable monthly compensation has been 11,833.47 euro, with no annual bonus; the Bundestag declined the increase due in 2026, so the figure stayed in force. A tax-free flat-rate allowance for mandate expenses stood at 5,467.27 euro a month on the compensation page as updated in July 2026.

Parliamentary work on health

In the 21st Bundestag, Carina Schießl is an ordinary member of the Committee on Health and a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. Her record in the first year of the term is the floor work and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) motions and minor interpellations she signed on nitrous oxide, medicinal cannabis, and the financing of care in Germany.

New psychoactive substances

On 9 October 2025 the Bundestag gave a first reading to a government bill amending the New Psychoactive Substances Act (printed papers 21/1504 and 21/1927). Health Minister Nina Warken said nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) were harming young people, and that GBL and BDO were used to incapacitate victims of sexual violence or robbery. The draft would bar minors from acquiring or possessing nitrous oxide, ban online and vending-machine sales to private users, and restrict pure GBL and BDO and preparations above 20 percent, while leaving medical and industrial use possible.

Schießl, at plenary pages 3387–3388, called the bill a double standard beside partial cannabis legalisation and said an eight-gram exemption—enough, citing a police union, to fill one balloon—left a loophole in whipped-cream cartridges. She asked for bans without exceptions and for enforcement and education. Ates Gürpinar (Die Linke) said the act would not stop sexual violence while the chemicals stayed in industrial use. Stephan Pilsinger (CDU/CSU) defended removing GBL from open sale because it is detectable for 12 to 24 hours, and treated the cream-charger objection as impractical. Speeches by Tanja Machalet (Social Democratic Party of Germany) and Linda Heitmann (Alliance 90/The Greens) went into the minutes, and the bill went to the Health Committee, in the lead, and the legal-affairs committee.

Second and third readings were on 13 November 2025, on the committee text in printed paper 21/2752. At pages 4672–4673 Schießl called it a drop in the ocean: police at a committee hearing had described more young users of flavoured products, and she said officers lacked staff to patrol sites selling “legal highs.” An AfD amendment she co-signed, printed paper 21/2761, would instead have exempted cartridges of up to nine grams, because commercial chargers usually hold 8.4 grams.

Pantazis (SPD) said it closed a real gap; Heitmann, in printed paper 21/2776, asked for a two-year evaluation; Gebel (Die Linke) called the act ineffective while industrial use continued. Streeck (CDU/CSU) said 23 young people had been shown to have died from nitrous oxide in the previous year and described the text as barring cartridges above 8.4 grams. In show-of-hands votes, not a roll call, only the AfD backed its amendment. The CDU/CSU, SPD and Greens passed the bill, with the AfD and Die Linke abstaining and nobody voting against; the Greens’ resolution also failed, the AfD again abstaining.

Cannabis and psychotherapy financing

On 18 December 2025 the House gave a first reading to a draft First Act amending the Medicinal Cannabis Act (printed paper 21/3061). Since the Cannabis Act took effect on 1 April 2024, cannabis for medical purposes has been a prescription medicine rather than a narcotic. The draft says flower imports rose 170 percent between the halves of 2024, on Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices figures, while statutory-insurance prescriptions rose 9 percent, mostly from self-payers using telemedicine without a visit in person. Warken said flowers would require an in-person consultation, another within four quarters for repeats, and pharmacy counselling, with courier delivery still allowed.

At pages 6032–6033 Schießl called the bill a repair of damage by the SPD, Greens and Free Democratic Party (Germany). Citing Die Zeit, she said imports reached 72 tonnes in 2024, up about 129 percent, against a 9 percent rise in insurance prescriptions, and she called telemedical portals and mail-order pharmacies a non-medical route. She said the University of Augsburg had reported a doubling of cannabis-related psychoses, quoted Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder against permitting drugs, and said an AfD government would end general legalisation while keeping controlled medical use. Mieves (SPD) called anonymous click-prescribing abuse but wanted video contact and postal supply kept; Heitmann called the draft possibly contrary to European law; Gürpinar said it would push users to the illegal market. The draft was referred to the Health Committee and the legal-affairs committee, with no final vote that day.

Psychotherapy fees moved on a separate track. The GKV-Spitzenverband reported on 12 March 2026 that the extended valuation committee had, by a two-thirds majority, cut fees for office-based psychotherapists by 4.5 percent from 1 April 2026 and raised staff-cost supplements by 14.5 percent from 1 January 2026, a net change the association put at minus 2.3 percent for 2026. The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians voted against the cut; on 9 July 2026 the Landessozialgericht Berlin-Brandenburg suspended it in interim proceedings. On 10 July 2026 the Bundestag passed the Act on Stabilising Contribution Rates in Statutory Health Insurance, under which most psychotherapy previously paid outside the budget returns to the morbidity-related overall remuneration. The Health Ministry said that extrabudgetary spending had nearly doubled in ten years, to 3.9 billion euros in 2025; treatments already under way are to be paid until they end, and the consiliary report is no longer required after a doctor’s referral or a relevant hospital recommendation. On 24 September 2026 she told a constituent on Abgeordnetenwatch that she rejected that budgeting, wanted fees that reflect time and practice costs, and called announced exceptions for children, severe illness and urgent cases insufficient for adults.

Questions and other files

On 6 January 2026 Schießl co-signed a minor interpellation on “aerotoxic syndrome” and cabin air said to be contaminated by engine-oil additives through bleed-air systems (printed paper 21/3496). The questioners describe a symptom complex whose recognition as an occupational disease has, they write, largely been refused. The reply of 3 February 2026 (printed paper 21/3994) says long-lasting complaints are not, on scientific criteria, attributable to fume events, and that BG Verkehr therefore pays for acute crew care after such accidents but not for chronic disease.

An interpellation of 8 April 2026 (printed paper 21/5215), also co-signed by her, asks which thresholds lead the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut to treat suspected reactions to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines as a risk signal, and says national and European Medicines Agency figures are hard to reconcile. The ministry’s answer of 23 April 2026 (printed paper 21/5613) says detection combines a statistical screen of all valid spontaneous reports, most often a reporting odds ratio, with a clinical reading of single cases. For reported deaths the institute compared observed rates per 100,000 doses with expected background rates; a higher rate is a possible signal for further study, not proof of risk.

She also co-signed questions of 15 December 2025 on private-insurance contribution rises and the limited transfer of ageing provisions (printed paper 21/3260), and a motion of 7 July 2025 on care for people described as harmed by COVID-19 vaccination (21/774). Two motions of 9 September 2025 asked for funded postgraduate places after the 2019 reform of psychotherapist training (21/1568) and for dropping the consiliary report where the patient already has a referral (21/1571). On 10 June 2026 the Health Committee recommended rejecting both, with the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens and Die Linke against the AfD, and the AfD joined the CDU/CSU and SPD in recommending rejection of a Greens motion (21/4954) for separate needs planning for children and adolescents. On 7 July 2026 Schießl was the lead signatory of a motion to make the “Hamburg model” of integrated psychiatric care, run since 2007 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, a nationwide benefit with capitation pay and outreach teams (printed paper 21/6934).

Political positions

Pandemic measures

In the 2025 federal campaign, Carina Schießl said she would “stand up for conservative views” in the Bundestag and would use her health-care experience “for better care and for a review of the so-called corona pandemic” (Aufarbeitung der sogenannten Corona-Pandemie). On her campaign site she wrote that, as a medical-technical laboratory assistant, she had seen the COVID-19 pandemic at first hand: the laboratory ran over capacity so that samples could still be analysed, and after what she called the release of unredacted files she increasingly questioned the background and named uncovering those “inconsistencies” as a priority of the mandate. In her first speech, on 17 September 2025, during the health-budget debate, she contrasted resources she associated with “illegal and criminal foreigners” with waiting lists of six to twelve months for children and young people “who were exposed to the terror of the corona measures” (Coronamaßnahmenterror).

Migration, remigration and health care

Ärzte Zeitung, quoting that homepage on 26 February 2025, reported that “Remigration” stood in capital letters as the first of her “main concerns,” followed by the demand that doctors’ practices, pharmacies and hospitals must always be able to ensure care. On the site the capitalized item was glossed as the “immediate return of offenders” (unverzügliche Rückführung von Straftätern). The word was already contested. In January 2024 the jury of the German “Unwort des Jahres” action chose “Remigration” as the non-word of 2023, calling it a “right-wing fighting term” and a “euphemistic camouflage word,” and said that in the Identitarian movement, right-wing parties and other right-wing to far-right groups it had become a euphemism for forced removal up to mass deportations of people with a migration history. At the Alternative for Germany congress in Riesa in January 2025, co-chair Alice Weidel said, “If it is then to be called remigration, then it is called remigration,” and delegates put the term into the election programme; tagesschau reported that the federal executive’s draft had omitted it, and described far-right use of the word as standing for mass expulsion of people with a migration background.

Her own posts have run wider than the “offenders” line. A Correctiv review of more than 1,100 social-media posts, published on 30 September 2025, counted her with Matthias Helferich and Christian Zaum among the members then using “Remigration” most often, in what Correctiv said they playfully called “Team Remigration.” Correctiv reported a post of hers, “Consistent remigration,” over a graphic of a bloody knife, and others linking the demand to “Merkel’s asylum flood of 2015,” a “multicultural drug swamp in Regensburg” and the claim that “Bavaria is sinking in foreigner violence”; it also wrote that photographs of a trip through political Berlin the year before showed her with Identitarian activists.

In July 2025 she told Blick that a ban on foreign day visitors at the outdoor pool in Pruntrut, in the Swiss canton of Jura, was an inspiration, and the paper quoted her calling for a ban on foreign men in German outdoor pools “as Switzerland is implementing it.” She told Blick the post was a prompt for debate rather than an immediate Bundestag bill, that pool operators should use their house rules so that women and children could feel at ease, and that she had posted a montage headed “Talahon-free zone,” which the paper described as a stereotype of young men of Arab origin.

The 17 September 2025 speech tied migration to mental-health capacity. She said about 3.45 million “so-called refugees” lived in Germany, that studies from the universities of Mannheim and Bielefeld found about 30 percent had mental illnesses—about one million people “imported,” in her wording—and that a danger proceeded from them, naming Karl Lauterbach and Herbert Reul and listing knife attacks, clan crime, gang rapes and terrorist acts. She called for more statutory-insurance psychotherapy seats, stronger rural care, and the consistent deportation of all “illegal migrants,” whom she said used resources needed for German citizens.

Europe and other stated priorities

She is a full member of the Bundestag health committee and a deputy member of the committee on European Union affairs. The campaign text and the parliamentary sources cited here do not set out a separate programme on EU health policy, EU return rules or the division of powers with Brussels. Under her “main concerns” she instead listed safe, cheap energy from modern nuclear plants; tax cuts; investment that benefits taxpayers; an end to the combustion-engine ban; abolition of what she called the pointless CO₂ tax; less bureaucracy; affordable housing; abolition of Bürgergeld, because “performance must pay again”; and “NO WAR,” meaning no arms deliveries into war zones and “certainly no” Taurus cruise missiles. On 15 October 2026, abgeordnetenwatch recorded her voting to extend the Bundeswehr mission in the Red Sea (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES) and the mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). In a written answer of 24 September 2026 she said she opposed planned limits on the Freedom of Information Act and regarded access to official information as an important civil right. Asked whether the pension age should be tied to life expectancy, she did not answer yes or no; on 15 October 2026 she wrote that policy had to weigh current pensioners, younger generations, different working lives and long-term viability, and that the debate should stay open.

Public profile

Press portraits

Regional and specialist coverage of Carina Schießl has centered on the February 2025 federal election, her online language, and a later clash with local mayors. In constituency 232, Regensburg, she was runner-up on first votes with 17.9 percent, behind Peter Aumer of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria on 38.3 percent, and entered the Bundestag from tenth place on the Alternative for Germany list in Bavaria.

TVA posted a two-minute video of her reaction that evening; the page has no transcript.

idowa said she had left University Hospital Regensburg rather than be vaccinated, then worked for AfD legislator Dieter Arnold, would be one of few women in the group, and was likely to enter from tenth place on the Bavarian list. On election night it reported that the list seat had come through, as she had expected. Onetz told the same result from Schwarzenfeld—roots and a residence there—and, behind a paywall, what she said had shaped her.

On 26 February 2025 Ärzte Zeitung included her among short portraits of members with a health-care background: 35, born in Schwandorf, trained as a medical-technical laboratory assistant. Quoting her website, it said she wanted to “stand up for conservative views” and to use her experience for better care and a review of the COVID-19 pandemic, which the site called the “so-called corona pandemic.” “Remigration,” the paper noted, stood in capitals as the first of her “main concerns,” ahead of keeping practices, pharmacies and hospitals able to supply care. The Mittelbayerische Zeitung had run an A-to-Z on 11 February under her line that the traffic-light coalition had “driven Germany into the wall.” In September 2026 it reported that mayors in the district of Regensburg called her inquiry on refugee accommodation misaddressed and said she lacked a local presence; she rejected that and invited them to argue on site.

On 30 September 2025 Correctiv, reviewing more than 1,100 AfD posts, placed her with Matthias Helferich and Christian Zaum in a self-styled “Team Remigration,” part of a core of about 15 deputies behind nearly half of the group’s “remigration” posts since January 2024. It quoted “Konsequente Remigration” over a bloody-knife graphic and lines such as “Bayern versinkt in Ausländergewalt!”, often with AI images, including one of Angela Merkel with blood on her hands, and wrote that photos from a Berlin trip the year before showed her with activists of the Identitarian Movement Germany.

Local and online presence

The Bundestag biography lists Facebook, Instagram (_carina_schiessl_), TikTok (@carina.schiessl) and X (@Carina_Schiessl). On Parliamentwatch (abgeordnetenwatch.de) the counter for the current mandate stood at nine of nine questions answered. On outpatient psychotherapy fees she rejected a budget cap, wrote that necessary treatment should not stop when a fee pool is exhausted, and noted that a 4.5 percent cut from March 2026 had been provisionally stopped by the Land Social Court of Berlin-Brandenburg on 9 July 2026. On the Freedom of Information Act she said the AfD group opposed planned limits and that access to official information was a civil right.

Other replies declined a yes-or-no on linking the retirement age to life expectancy; treated the gap between civil-service and statutory pensions as a fairness issue and favored limiting civil-servant status to core tasks such as police and justice; and, on paying for new nuclear plants and storing waste, pointed to long operating lives, private consortia and state planning certainty. She said abortion law needed no change. On the 27 January memorial of the liberation of Auschwitz she rejected any charge of relativizing Nazi crimes and said today’s generations bear no personal guilt.