High Representative since August 1, 2021
• Federal Minister (former)
• Member of the German Bundestag since 1990
• Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and rapporteur for the Western Balkan States
• Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture from 17 February 2014 to 14 March 2018
• Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2013 to 2014
• Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defense from 2005 to 2013
• Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Defense 2002-2005
• Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Group for Foreign Policy, Defense and European Affairs for the CSU Parliamentary Group 1991- 2002
• Representing CSU Parliamentary Group in the Western Balkans advisory circle of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1992 to 1998
• President of the German Atlantic Association since 2006
• Vice-Chair of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation since 2018
• Treasurer and member of the Presidency of the European People’s Party
• Vice-Chair of the CSU from 2011 to 2017
• Born in 1957 in Obernzenn (Franconia);married, father of two children
• Lawyer by profession;University of Erlangen and University of Lausanne
