Michael Meister (born 9 June 1961) is a German

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and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the

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from the state

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since 1994. From 2018 until 2021 he also served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the

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in the

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of Chancellor

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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 co ...

. 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 CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties (german: Unionsparteien, ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian-democratic political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Soc ...

parliamentary group under the leadership of successive chairpersons Angela Merkel (2004-2005) and

Volker Kauder Volker Kauder (born 3 September 1949) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary group leader of the ruling CDU/CSU faction in the German ''Bundestag'' from 2005 to 2018, during which h ...

(2005-2013). In this capacity, he oversaw the group's initiatives on economic policy. In the negotiations to form a '' Grand Coalition'' of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the

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(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

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and Olaf Scholz. In the third cabinet of Chancellor

, 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 coalition government 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 Natascha Kohnen.

Other activities

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 d ...

, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2007–2014) *

German Investment Corporation Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) is a Development Finance Institution (DFI) and a subsidiary of KfW Group. It was founded in Cologne in September 1962 as a federally owned company by the former Federal President Walter ...

(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 The Jewish Museum Berlin (''Jüdisches Museum Berlin'') was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees (2014-2018)

Political positions

In June 2017, Meister voted against Germany's introduction of

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. Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2022, Meister publicly endorsed

Helge Braun Helge Reinhold Braun (born 18 October 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition governmen ...

to succeed

Armin Laschet Armin Laschet (; born 18 February 1961) is a German politician who served as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 June 2017 to 26 October 2021. He served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 22 January 2021 to 3 ...

as the party’s chair.Suche nach neuem CDU-Chef: Kanzleramtschef Helge Braun bekommt Unterstützung
''

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'', November 10, 2021.

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