The Union sets up these ministers for Merz ‘cabinet

The CDU’s cabinet list stands for the future black and red federal government. In addition to the expected Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), the Christian Democrats send four ministers and three ministers at the cabinet table, as the CDU in Berlin announced. Merz presented the names during a presidium meeting. These are the nominees in pharmaceutical form:

CDU boss Friedrich Merz chose Jens Spahn as the future chairman of the Union faction. Merz announced on Monday on the CDU federal board that he would propose the former Federal Minister of Health together with CSU boss Markus Söder for the post, the AFP news agency learned from participants. The parliamentary group is currently still in Merz, who is to be elected Chancellor on May 6th.

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Thorsten Frei, 51 years, previously the first parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, lawyer, in the Bundestag, previously from 2004 to 2013, mayor of the city of Donaueschingen (Baden-Württemberg).

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Katherina Reiche, 51 years, previously head of the Eon subsidiary West energy, graduate chemist, from 1998 to 2015 as Brandenburg CDU politician member of the Bundestag, temporarily parliamentary state secretary in the environmental, then in the Ministry of Transport.

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Johann WadePhul, 62 years, since 2009 member of the Bundestag from Schleswig-Holstein and most recently faction vice for foreign and security policy, specialist lawyer for medical law and for social law, 2005 to 2009 chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in Schleswig-Holstein.

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The previous CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt is to fill this post. Dobrindt is considered the key figure in the ratio of the CDU and CSU. He is also said to be a spokesman for the CSU Federal Minister in the cabinet.

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Patrick Schnieder, 56 years, lawyer, since 2009 in the Bundestag and since 2018 parliamentary managing director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, from 2009 to 2021 member of the Transport Committee of the German Bundestag, 1999 to 2009 Mayor of the Association of Arzfeld (Rhineland-Palatinate).

Nina Warken, 45 years, in the Bundestag (previously already 2013 to 2017), Parliamentary Managing Director of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, lawyer, member of the Federal Executive of the Women’s Union of the CDU in Germany, general secretary of the CDU Baden-Württemberg since 2023.

Karin Prien, 59 years, deputy CDU chairman since 2021, since 2017 Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education, Science and Culture, 2011 to 2017 member of the citizens in Hamburg, lawyer, chair of the Jewish forum of the CDU.

Karsten Wildberger, born in 1969, a doctorate in physicists, since 2021 CEO of Ceconomy AG and the MediaMarkt-Saturn Group, previously on the board of Eon, Telstra (Australia), Vodafone (Romania and Great Britain), 2003 to 2006 at Deutsche Telekom AG and from 1998 to 2003 management consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

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CSU-Vice Dorothee Bär is to take over the Ministry of Research, Technology and Space Travel in the new Federal Government. The 47-year-old was already a digital minister of State under Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). Bär’s calling is not surprising. In the coalition negotiations, she had been the closest CSU negotiation team. In the federal election, Bär had become a nationwide first queen nationwide.

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From MP to the Minister: The Csuler Alois Rainer makes this jump. Rainer is only Söder’s second choice for the ministerial post – he had always named Bavaria’s farmers’ president Günther Felßner as his desired candidate in the election campaign. However, this had given up against himself in March after protests by environmental and animal rights activists.

The former journalist and media entrepreneur Wolfram Weimer will take over this position in the future. He inherits the Green politician Claudia Roth, but is not a member of the Christian Democrats, but is considered a CDU-close. The 60-year-old, in his own words “publisher, publicist, cultural friend”, was the founder of the Berlin magazine “Cicero” in 2003, which he headed until 2010. Previously, he worked as a journalist at the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” as well as the newspapers “Die Welt” and “Berliner Morgenpost”. After “Cicero” he was editor -in -chief of the “Focus” magazine until 2012. Afterwards, Weimer founded the Weimer Media Group together with his wife, the former FAZ journalist Christiane Götz-Weimer.

The CDU politician Christiane Schenderlein is expected to become Minister of State for Sport and Volunteering in the future federal government. The Saxon member of the Bundestag entered the CDU in 1998 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2021. The 43-year-old is currently spokeswoman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and belongs to the Committee on Culture and Media. Schenderlein has been a member of the ZDF remote council since 2020.

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