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Social scientist, President of the German Bundestag

Born on 16 November in Bochum; Catholic; married, four children.

Attended elementary school, grammar school specialising in classics; obtained Abitur (higher education entrance qualification) in Carried out military service from to Went on to study political science, sociology, modern history and social economics at the University of Bochum and the University of Oxford (England) from to ; graduated in and obtained doctorate in social sciences in

Worked freelance in the field of adult education and further training as a lecturer at various academies, foundations, associations and firms; lecturer in political science at the universities of applied sciences in Bochum (economics department) and Hagen (public administration).

Has published works on party research and economic and social-policy problems.

Member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since ; deputy chairman of the Bochum county branch of the CDU from to ; deputy chairman of the Westphalia-Lippe branch of the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU) from to ; since member of the executive committee of the North-Rhine/Westphalian Land branch of the CDU and chairman of the Ruhr district branch of the CDU. Member of Bochum city council from to Since March deputy chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Member of the German Bundestag since ; from to deputy chairman of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure and chairman of the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Friendship Group. Parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Science from 21 April to 10 November , at the Federal Ministry of Economics from 17 November , and at the Federal Ministry of Transport from 15 May to 26 October Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy from to ; chairman of the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from North-Rhine/Westphalia since ; spokesman on cultural and media affairs for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from to ; Vice-President of the German Bundestag from October to 18 October , and President of the German Bundestag since 18 October

Membership of Bundestag bodies

• President of the German Bundestag
• Chairman:
  Council of Elders

Membership of other bodies

• Head:
  Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Member:
  Joint Committee
  Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union