Horst Seehofer

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Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born July 4, 1949 in Ingolstadt) is a German politician (CSU). He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and now serves as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel.

[edit] Member of the Bundestag

He has been a member of the Lower House of the German Parliament (Bundestag) in Germany since 1980. He became assistant chairman of the CDU/CSU faction of the Bundestag in October 1998. Because of his disagreement with flat-rate contributions (Gesundheitsprämie) to the federal health insurance he resigned from his post on November 22, 2004 but remained the assistant chairman of the CSU and kept his mandate.

Since joining the Bundestag Horst Seehofer has kept his mandate as a directly elected delegate (Direktkandidat) from his Constituency Ingolstadt. At the 2005 federal election he received 65.9 percent of the first votes.

[edit] External links

Official Site of Seehofer

Preceded by Gerda Hasselfeldt	Federal Minister for Health and Social Security (Germany) 1992-1998	Succeeded by Andrea Fischer
Preceded by Renate Künast	Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Germany) 2005-	Succeeded by incumbent

v • d • e The Merkel Cabinet, since 22 November 2005

Franz Müntefering/Olaf Scholz (since 22 Nov 2007) (SPD) \| Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) \| Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) \| Brigitte Zypries (SPD) \| Peer Steinbrück (SPD) \| Michael Glos (CSU) \| Horst Seehofer (CSU) \| Franz Josef Jung (CDU) \| Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) \| Ulla Schmidt (SPD) \| Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD) \| Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) \| Annette Schavan (CDU) \| Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (SPD) \| Thomas de Maizière (CDU)