Brandenburg’s CDU state chairman Jan Redmann, unlike the former Union parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Jens Spahn, did not have a surrogate for his now two-year-old daughter. He and his partner consciously chose a different path, the 46-year-old told the Nordkurier. “Today we are together with the mother of our child in a patchwork-family situation.” He knows there are very legitimate ethical concerns about surrogacy, “which I can understand well,” said Redmann, who also serves as interior minister. The topic of surrogacy belongs, like many questions at the beginning and end of life, to the big and not easily answered issues. He finds it hard “to condemn people who have chosen surrogacy,” Redmann said.
Coming out in January 2023
Redmann is open about his sexuality. In early January 2023, he posted on Facebook that he had been with his husband Peter for 18 years. This became widely known only after Redmann’s appearance at a queer-political event in Potsdam in August 2024. The weekly magazine “Bunte” later told in an interview that his father initially “had a hard time” with his son making his homosexuality public. He has since accepted his son’s sexuality. His role model is the former First Mayor of Hamburg, Ole von Beust (CDU). Von Beust showed him “that a gay man can live as a bourgeois and self-confident citizen.” In March, Redmann said that he is the father of a 20-month-old daughter.
Jens Spahn was pressured by his party to resign
Spahn and his husband had decided to have their child brought into the world by a surrogate mother in the United States (TheColu.mn reported). Surrogate motherhood is illegal in Germany. After intense criticism of his actions, Spahn resigned last Saturday (TheColu.mn reported).
