Albert Füracker (born 3 February 1968) is a German

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of the

Christian Social Union of Bavaria The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (German language, German: , CSU) is a Christian democracy, Christian democratic and Conservatism in Germany, conservative List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. Having a regionali ...

(CSU). He has been a member of the

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since September 2008 and has served as the Minister for Finance and Home Affairs of

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since March 2018.

Education and family

Füracker, who came from the Lupburg district of , attended the grammar school in

Parsberg Parsberg is a town in the county of Neumarkt in Bavaria, Germany. It is 23 km southeast of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km northwest of Regensburg, next to the A3 autobahn, the main route from Nuremberg to Regensburg (and then on ...

until he graduated from secondary school. He then completed vocational training as a farmer. This was followed by further training as a for agriculture at the Triesdorf Technical School. In 1990, he took over his parents' farm. Until his entry into the Bavarian state parliament in 2008, Albert Füracker was a full-time farmer. Füracker is of Roman Catholic denomination, married and has four children.

Political career

Between 1986 and 2003, Füracker was a member of the

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. He has been a member of the CSU since 1987. From 2009 until 2013, Füracker chaired the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forestry. He also served on the Parliamentary Commission on the Energy Transition from 2012 until 2013. From 2013 until 2018, Füracker was a member of the state government of Minister-President

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of Bavaria. During that time, he served as State Secretary at the State Ministry of Finance under the leadership of Minister

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. Since 2018 Füracker has been serving as State Minister of Finance, Regional Development and Home Affairs in the state government of Minister-President

of Bavaria. Füracker was nominated by his party as delegate to the

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for the purpose of electing the

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. In the negotiations to form a ''

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'' under the leadership of

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's Christian Democrats ( CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the

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(SPD) following the 2025 German elections, Füracker was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on public finances, led by Mathias Middelberg,

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and

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Other activities

Regulatory agencies

* Stability Council, Ex-Officio Member (since 2018)

Corporate boards

KfW The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest national ...

, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors *

Messe München Messe München GmbH is the operator of the Neue Messe München exhibition center, the ICM Internationales Congress Center München and the MOC Veranstaltungscenter München. The exhibition space of the 16 halls together is 180,000 m2 and ...

, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board * Messe Nuremberg, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

* Bavarian Research Foundation, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees *

Deutsches Museum The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science museum, science and technology museum, technology, with a ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees *

Ifo Institute for Economic Research The Ifo Institute for Economic Research is a Munich-based research institution. Ifo is an acronym from Information and Forschung (research). As one of Germany's largest economic think-tanks, it analyses economic policy and is known for its mon ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees * Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees *

Lions Club Lions Clubs International, is an international service organization, currently headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. , it had over 46,000 local clubs and more than 1.4 million members (including the youth wing Leo clubs, Leo) in more than 200 ge ...

, Member

References

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