Reinhold Hilbers (born 25 July 1964 in
Lingen) is a German businessman and politician of the
Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been a member of the
Landtag of Lower Saxony since March 2003. Since November 2017, he has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President
Stephan Weil.
Early life and career
After training in the wholesale and export business, he undertook
military service in the Bundeswehr. Then, he studied economics at the
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Between 1993 and 1999, he worked at a local bank. From 1999 he served as managing director of Lebenshilfe Nordhorn GmbH.
Political career
Hilbers became a member of the CDU in 1988. At present he is chairman of the CDU district of
Grafschaft Bentheim.
Since the
2003 state elections, Hilbers has been a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony. He was elected with 72.2% of the votes to represent his constituency in parliament. In the
2008 state elections, he obtained 55.6% of the votes. From 2013 until 2017, he served as deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.
In 2017,
Bernd Althusmann included Hilbers in his
shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President
Stephan Weil; during the campaign, he was in charge of social policy issues. Hilbers eventually became State Minister of Finance. In this capacity, he is one of the state's representatives at the
Bundesrat, where he serves on the Finance Committee.
Hilbers was nominated by his party as delegate to the
Federal Convention
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for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany in
2022
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Other activities
Regulatory agencies
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Stability Council, Ex-Officio Member
Corporate boards
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Deutsche Messe AG, Member of the Advisory Board
* Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG, Chairman of the supervisory board (since 2017)
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KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors
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Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB), Ex-Officio Chairman of the supervisory board (since 2017), previously Member of the Advisory Board
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Salzgitter AG, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board
Non-profit organizations
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Max Planck Society
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, Member of the Senate
Senate, as of April 6, 2020
Max Planck Society
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References
External links
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands web site
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1964 births
Living people
People from Lingen
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Businesspeople from Lower Saxony
Members of the Landtag of Lower Saxony
Ministers of the Lower Saxony State Government