Career
In 1994,Kahl completed his second state examination at the Oberlandesgericht of Cologne,and then worked for the Confederation of German Employers' Associations. From 1995 to 1996,he was a desk officer at the Federal Chancellery. From 1996 until 2005,he was assigned as an adviser to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group,where he performed preliminary work for the group's chairman Wolfgang Schäuble. Since then,he has been a close confidant of Schäuble. [3] [4]
In 2005 in the First Merkel cabinet,Kahl served as Head of the Minister's Office and spokesman of Schäuble at the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI),where he became head of the executive group in 2006. [1] In 2008,Kahl was awarded a Doctor of Law by the University of Bonn,authoring his dissertation on elements of Catholic thought in Carl Schmitt's secular political theory. In 2010,Kahl followed Schäuble to the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF),where he also served as head of the executive staff. Beginning in 2011,Kahl acted as Undersecretary for Directorate-General VIII (Privatisation,industrial holdings and federal real estate) at BMF. [3] In this capacity,he also served on the Supervisory Board of Portigon AG from 2012 until 2015. [5]
Kahl was appointed President of the Federal Intelligence Service on 27 April 2016,effective 1 July,after the dismissal of Gerhard Schindler. [6] [4] His replacement at the BMF is Johannes Schmalzl [ de ]. [7]
Kahl is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). [8]
In February 2022,Kahl was in Ukraine when Russia invaded and had to be taken home overland in a two-day journey by special forces when the country's airspace was closed. [9]
Only a few days before,Kahl had declared that Putin had not yet decided whether to attack Ukraine. [10]
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