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Dr. Markus Söder, MdL

Minister of State for Finance
Bavarian State Ministry of Finance

biography

Dr. Markus Söder, Bavarian State Minister of Financespoke about "Sustainable finance" at this year's Management Colloquium.

 

Education and professional career

1987 – 1991 Studied law in Erlangen
State examination in law
Scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Research assistant at the Chair of Constitutional, Administrative and Canon Law
1992 – 1993 Traineeship at Bayerischer Rundfunk, then editor at BR
1998 Doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nuremberg

 

Political career, party offices

since 1983 Member of CSU
1995 – 2003 State Chairman of the Junge Union Bayern
Member of the CSU Presidium
since 1997 District Chairman of the CSU Nuremberg-West
since 2000 Chairman of the CSU Media Commission
2003 – 2007 CSU General Secretary
since June 2008 Chairman of the CSU District Association Nuremberg-Fürth-Schwabach

 

Political mandates

since 1994 Member of the Landtag
October 2007 -
october 2008
Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs in the Bavarian State Chancellery
October 2008 -
october 2011
Bavarian State Minister for the Environment and Health
since November 4, 2011 Bavarian Minister of State for Finance