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Abitur at the Gymnasium in Naila. 15 months military service. Studied law in Munich and Augsburg, 1986 2nd state law examination, doctorate (Dr. jur.); studied economics in Augsburg, 1986 intermediate diploma for graduate economists; subsequently studied economics at the Open University of Hagen.
1988 Government Councillor in the Federal Ministry of Economics, most recently Ministerial Councillor; 1991 employee of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, advisor to the CSU state group in the working group on economics, transport, agriculture, 1993 personal advisor to the then Chairman of the CSU state group, Michael Glos.
Member of the CSU since 1974, Chairman of the Federal Electoral District Conference in the Hof/Wunsiedel Federal Electoral District since 1998; Deputy District Chairman of the CSU of Upper Franconia since 1999, District Chairman of the CSU of Upper Franconia since July 2011.
Member of the Bundestag since 1998, from 2005 to 2009 as Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group responsible for "Transport, Construction, Urban Development, Tourism, Municipal Policy".
From September 2009 to March 2011, Chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
From 2011 to 2013, Federal Minister of the Interior; from December 2013 to February 2014, Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture; from February 2014 to October 2017, Vice Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.
Vice President of the German Bundestag from October 2017 to October 2021.
