Bundesregierung

Born on 18 September 1942 in Freiburg; married, four children
 
Since October 2009
Federal Minister of Finance
 
2005 - 2009
Federal Minister of the Interior
 
2002 - 2005
Vice-Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag for foreign policy, security policy and European policy
 
1998 - 2000
Federal Chairman and since then member of the Presidium of the Christian Democratic Union Germany (CDU)
 
1991 - 2000
Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
 
1984 - 1989
Federal Minister of Special Tasks and Head of the Federal Chancellery, then Federal Minister of the Interior
 
1981 - 1984
Parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag
 
1975 - 1984
Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
 
Since 1972
Member of the German Bundestag
 
1979 - 1982
Chairman of the Working Group of European Border Regions
 
1976 - 1984
Chairman of CDU Special Committee for Sport
 
1978 - 1984
Barrister in the regional court of Offenburg
 
1969 - 1972
District Chairman of Junge Union Südbaden
 
1971
Conferred a doctorate in a subject of commercial law and joined the tax authorities of the federal state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg
 
1966 - 1970
1. State law examination, then assistant lecturer at Freiburg University and representative of the Vice-Chancellor on political education, second state examination
 
Since 1965
Member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU)
 
Since 1961
Joined the Junge Union, the CDU youth organisation
 
1961
Studied Law and Economics in Freiburg und Hamburg
 
1961
Abitur (German equivalent to A-Levels)