Michael Meister (born 9 June 1961) is a German mathematician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state Hesse since 1994. From 2018 until 2021 he also served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in the government of

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Angela Merkel.

Political career

Meister first became a member of the Bundestag in the

1994 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 October 1994 to elect the members of the 13th Bundestag. The CDU/CSU alliance led by Helmut Kohl remained the largest faction in parliament, with Kohl remaining Chancellor in a narrowly re-elected coa ...

. From 1994 until 1998, he was a member of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning. From 2004 until 2013, he served as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group under the leadership of successive chairpersons Angela Merkel (2004-2005) and

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(2005-2013). In this capacity, he oversaw the group's initiatives on economic policy. In the negotiations to form a ''

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'' of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian

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) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Meister was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on financial policies and the national budget, led by Wolfgang Schäuble and

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. In the third cabinet of

Angela Merkel, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance under minister Wolfgang Schäuble from 2013 until 2018. In the negotiations to form a

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under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, Meister was part of the working group on urban development, led by Bernd Althusmann, Kurt Gribl and

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Other activities

Corporate boards

* KfW, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2007–2014) * German Investment Corporation (DEG), Member of the Supervisory Board (2014-2018)

Non-profit organizations

* German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2019) * German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF), Chairman of the Board (since 2018) * Jewish Museum Berlin, Member of the Board of Trustees (2014-2018)

Political positions

In June 2017, Meister voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2022, Meister publicly endorsed Helge Braun to succeed Armin Laschet as the party’s chair.Suche nach neuem CDU-Chef: Kanzleramtschef Helge Braun bekommt Unterstützung
'' RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland'', November 10, 2021.

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