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Volker Wissing

Volker Wissing, Bundesminister für Digitales und Verkehr (BMDV). Portrait

Volker Wissing is Federal Minister for Digital and Transport

(Photo: Bundesregierung/Denzel)


CV

  • Born on 22 April 1970 in Landau in der Pfalz.

  • 1989
    Abitur (university entrance qualification) at Staatliches Gymnasium, Bad Bergzabern

  • 1989 to 1994
    Studied law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, first state examination in law

  • 1996
    Second state examination in law in Mainz

  • 1997
    Doctorate at the University of Münster

  • 1997 to 1999
    Judge and public prosecutor in Zweibrücken and Landau in der Pfalz

  • 2000 to 2004
    Personal assistant to the Minister of Justice of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Herbert Mertin

  • 2001
    Appointed judge at Landau in der Pfalz District Court

  • 2004 to 2013
    Member of the Bundestag

  • 2009 to 2011
    Chair of the Bundestag Finance Committee

  • since 2011
    Chair of the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate

  • 2011 to 2013
    Deputy Chair of the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag

  • since 2013
    Member of the Executive Committee of the FDP

  • since 2013
    Lawyer

  • 2016 to 2021
    Member of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, Deputy State Premier and Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate

  • 2020 to 2021
    Secretary General of the FDP

  • since 2021
    Member of the Bundestag

  • since December 2021
    Federal Minister for Digital and Transport

Federal Minister for Digital and Transport

Berlin office
Invalidenstraße 44, 10115 Berlin
Krausenstraße 17 - 20, 10117 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 3018 300-0


Bonn office
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
53175 Bonn
Phone: +49 (0) 22899 300-0

Website of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport