Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971) is a German politician and member of the CDU. From 2009 until 2018, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Career

Early career

Between 2001 and 2009, Schröder worked as a lawyer with law firm

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in Hamburg.

Member of the German Parliament, 2002-2017

Schröder first became a member of the

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following the 2002 federal elections. Between 2002 and 2009, he served as a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure. A member of the Budget Committee between 2005 and 2009, he served as the

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

parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of the

Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth The Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (; abbreviated BMBFSFJ) is a cabinet-level ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is headquartered in Berlin with a secondary seat in Bonn. The ministr ...

(BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ). During that time, he was also the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of the

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(

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). From 2007, Schröder led the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from

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. From 2009, Schröder served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior under ministers

Thomas de Maizière Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière (; born 21 January 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence f ...

(2009-2011, 2013–2018) and Hans-Peter Friedrich (2011–2013) in the

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and

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cabinets of

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Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leade ...

. In this capacity, he is in charge of information technology and sport. 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

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(SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Schröder was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Thomas Oppermann.

Return to the private sector

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Following a similar decision of his wife, Schröder announced in June 2016 that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term. He has been working as a consultant for

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since 2018. In 2019, he was appointed to the board of

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Other activities

* Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), Deputy Chairman of the supervisory board (''ex officio'') * German-South African Lawyers Association (DSJV), Member * Porsche European Open, Member of the Board of Trustees * German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation ( IRZ), Member of the Board of Trustees (2005-2009)

Political positions

In June 2017, Schröder voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of

same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal Legal sex and gender, sex. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 ...

Personal life

Schröder is married to

Kristina Schröder Kristina Schröder (''née'' Köhler, born 3 August 1977) is a German politician who served as the Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2009 to 2013. She serve ...

, a fellow member of the Bundestag and former Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Their first child was born in July 2011.

References

External links

Official Website
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