open popup Bernd Neumann Photo: REGIERUNGonline / Kugler

Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Born on January 6, 1942 in Elbing, Western Prussia; married, two children

Since November 2005
Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery and Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs

1998 - 2005
Spokesman for the CDU/CSU Group on the Bundestag Cultural and Media Affairs Committee

1991 - 1998
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology

1989 - 1995
Chairman of the CDU Committee on Media Policy, as of 1995 Deputy Chairman

Since 1987
Member of the Bundestag

1979 - 2008
Chairman of the CDU for the City-State of Bremen

1971 - 1987
Member of the Bremen State Assembly; as of 1973 Chairman of the CDU Group

1966 - 1971
Teacher in Bremen

1963 - 1966
Studied for a degree in Education in Bremen

Since 1962
Member of the CDU

1961 - 1963
Military service

1961
Finished secondary school