Ole Schröder
| Ole Schröder | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2002 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 27, 1971 Rellingen, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Spouse(s) | Kristina Schröder |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971 in Rellingen) is a German politician and member of the CDU. Since 2009 he has been Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Career
Between 2001 and 2009, Schröder worked as a lawyer with law firm White & Case in Hamburg.
Schröder has been a member of the Bundestag since 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 parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (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 Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). Since 2007, Schröder has been leading the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from Schleswig-Holstein.
Since 2009, Schröder has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior under ministers Thomas de Maizière (2009-2011 and since 2013) and Hans-Peter Friedrich (2011–2013) in the second and third cabinets of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In this capacity, he is in charge of information technology and sport.[1]
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (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.
Personal life
Schröder is married to Kristina Schröder, a fellow member of the Bundestag and former Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[2] Their first child was born in July 2011.[3]
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[4]
- German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation (IRZ), Member of the Board of Trustees (2005-2009)
Notes
- ↑ Mike Peacock (March 6, 2014), Putin short of guests at Sochi Paralympics Reuters.
- ↑ "Kabinett gratuliert Familienministerin zu Hochzeit", Die Zeit, February 13, 2010. (German)
- ↑ "German family minister pregnant with first child", monstersandcritics.com, January 19, 2011
- ↑ Prominent besetztes Kuratorium unterstützt das Turnier, Press release, 6 May 2015, Porsche European Open.
External links
- Official Website (German)
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