Curriculum Vitae
Since the European Parliament Election in 2019
EPP-Coordinator for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT). Member of the Delegation for Relations with the United States and substitute member of the Delegation for relations with Israel as well as substitute member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.
2014-2019
Vice Chairman of the SEDE Committee (Subcommittee on Security and Defence) and Co-coordinator for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States (2017-2019). Chairman of the European Parliament intergroup “Cultural and Creative Industries”.
2012-2014
Chairman of the Delegation for Relations with the United States
2007-2012
Member of the Board of the parliamentary group EPP (European People’s Party)
2006 - 2012
Deputy Chairman of the German parliamentary group CDU/CSU in the European Parliament
Since 2004
Member of the European Parliament
since May 2003
Member of the Board of the CDU in Brandenburg
2003 – November 2007
Deputy Federal Chairman of the MIT
2000 – 2010
Regional Chairman of the MIT (Association for Medium-sized Companies and the Economy) of the CDU in Brandenburg
2000 – 2010
Managing Director of ‘co:bios Technologiezentrum GmbH’ in Hennigsdorf, Germany (formerly Biotech GmbH)
1999 - 2004
Member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg; spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group for economy and technology matters
1998 - 2000
Managing Director of the project corporation ‘Bahnerprobungs- und Technologiezentrum Berlin/Brandenburg GmbH’
1997 – 1998
Managing Partner of ‘WISO Institut’ (Institute for Economic and Social Research)
1992 – 1997
Staff member/project manager and later Managing Director of the Aigner Group in Brandenburg
1991
Intern in the office of the Member of the German Parliament, Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff
1992 – 1993
Graduation to Dr. rer. Pol. (Doctor in law and political science) at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Subject: US trade politics
1989 – 1990
University studies in national economy at the American University in Washington D.C. Scientific staff member in the office of the Republican Senator John Heinz for the Financial Committee and the Subcommittee on Trade in the Senate of the US Congress
1986 – 1991
University studies in journalism, politics and political economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU)
1984 – 1986
Training course at the ‘Deutsche Journalistenschule’ (German school for Journalists) in Munich
1976 – 1984
Abitur (equivalent to UK A-levels or US AP tests) at the ‘Staatliche Landschulheim’ in Marquartstein/Bayern