This article's lead section may be too long.(March 2021) |
Ilse Aigner | |
---|---|
President of the Landtag of Bavaria | |
Assumed office 5 November 2018 | |
Preceded by | Barbara Stamm |
Deputy Minister President of Bavaria | |
In office 10 October 2013 –5 November 2018 | |
Minister President | Horst Seehofer Herself (Acting) Markus Söder |
Preceded by | Martin Zeil |
Succeeded by | Hubert Aiwanger |
Minister of Housing,Construction and Transport of Bavaria | |
In office 21 March 2018 –5 November 2018 | |
Minister President | Markus Söder |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Hans Reichhart |
Minister President of Bavaria Acting | |
In office 14 March 2018 –16 March 2018 | |
Deputy | Herself |
Preceded by | Horst Seehofer |
Succeeded by | Markus Söder |
Minister of the Economy,Energy,Technology and Media of Bavaria | |
In office 10 October 2013 –21 March 2018 | |
Minister President | Horst Seehofer Herself (Acting) Markus Söder |
Preceded by | Martin Zeil |
Succeeded by | Franz Josef Pschierer |
Federal Minister of Food,Agriculture and Consumer Protection | |
In office 31 October 2008 –30 September 2013 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Horst Seehofer |
Succeeded by | Hans-Peter Friedrich (Food and Agriculture) Heiko Maas (Consumer Protection) |
Member of the Bundestag for Starnberg | |
In office 27 September 1998 –22 September 2013 | |
Preceded by | Wolfgang Gröbl |
Succeeded by | Alexander Radwan |
Member of the Landtag of Bavaria for Miesbach | |
Assumed office 15 September 2013 | |
Preceded by | Alexander Radwan |
In office 25 September 1994 –13 September 1998 | |
Constituency | List |
Personal details | |
Born | 7 December 1964 Feldkirchen-Westerham,West Germany |
Political party | Christian Social Union |
Ilse Aigner (born 7 December 1964) is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Aigner was born in Feldkirchen-Westerham,Bavaria,and entered Angela Merkel's grand coalition cabinet as Federal Minister of Food,Agriculture and Consumer Protection on 31 October 2008. She succeeded Horst Seehofer,who had become Minister President of Bavaria. She left her position on 30 September 2013 after being elected as a member of the Bavarian parliament.
From 2013,she served as Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria. In addition,she served as State Minister of Economic Affairs;and Media,Energy and Technology (2013–2018) and State Minister of Construction and Transport (2018). After Horst Seehofer resigned as Minister President in order to become Federal Minister of the Interior on 14 March 2018,Aigner became acting Minister President until the election of Markus Söder as Minister President. After the 2018 Bavarian State elections,she was elected as President of the Bavarian Landtag, [1] succeeding longterm president Barbara Stamm who had lost her seat in the election. [2]
Aigner completed a professional training as a telecommunications technician in 1985 and joined her parents’electrical installation business. [3]
In 1990 she graduated from the technical academy with the degree of a State Certified Engineer and worked for several years for Eurocopter in the development of helicopter electric systems. [3]
Aigner was elected first in 1994 to the Bavarian State Parliament. [3]
From 1998 Aigner was a member of the German Bundestag,always winning an absolute majority of the votes in her electoral district.
Election results for the Bundestag | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Electoral District | Votes for Aigner | Votes for opposing Candidate (SPD) | |
1998 | Starnberg | 57,0% | 26,2% | |
2002 | Starnberg | 63,5% | 21,9% | |
2005 | Starnberg | 59,7% | 22,0% | |
2009 | Starnberg | 54,0% | 15,8% |
From 2002 to 2005,she was a member of the Budget Committee,where she served as her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection,Food and Agriculture (BMELV) and the aerospace technology portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). From 2005 to 2008,she served as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for education and research policy.
Aigner was a little-known member of parliament with no previous ministerial experience when she took over as Federal Minister for Consumer Protection,Food and Agriculture in the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2008, [4] replacing Horst Seehofer. [5]
During her time in office,Aigner steered through a 2011 dioxins scare that saw contaminated eggs and meat from Germany going to six neighbouring countries. [6] In response,she imposed tough new safety standards for animal feed manufacturers,a move widely supported in the market to retain public confidence. [4]
She took a tough line against cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Germany but received praise from commodity traders when she supported imports of GMOs approved in the United States and South America to secure German supplies of soybeans for animal feed. [4] Meanwhile,she repeatedly expressed concern that outside financial investment in agricultural commodity markets distorts prices,instead calling for more transparency in commodity markets and clear visibility of the difference between futures investment by industrial food buyers and financial investors. [7]
In 2009,Aigner caused a controversy when she called for requirements to publish the names and location of recipients of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies to be “suspended”until the implications for data protection have been assessed. In response,the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel threatened Germany with legal action. [8] [9]
Aigner has been outspoken in her criticism of Facebook,which she has said needs to do to protect its users′privacy. [10] [11] In September 2011,she asked all federal ministers in Germany not to use Facebook for public relations and communication. In 2010,she criticized Google over plans to give property owners a four-week deadline to stop their buildings from showing up on the company's then newly launched Street View mapping service,demanding that all requests be considered instead. [12]
Amid the German debate on the country′s energy transition to an energy portfolio dominated by renewable energy,Aigner called in later 2012 for the partial nationalization of the country′s electrical grid in order to ensure that high-voltage power lines required to transport green energy from offshore windfarms and other sources to the industry-heavy regions of southern Germany are built. [13]
In 2012,Aigner announced she would leave her post to return to local politics in her home state of Bavaria following the 2013 national elections,prompting speculation that she was eyeing the post of Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer. [4] This seemed even more likely as she had been elected chairwoman of her party′s Upper Bavaria district association in 2011, [3] the largest and most powerful CSU subdivision. [14]
Following her return to Bavaria after the state′s 2013 elections,Aigner was named Minister-President Horst Seehofer′s deputy as well as Bavarian Minister for Economic Affairs,Media,Energy and Technology. As one of Bavaria′s representatives at the Bundesrat,she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs;the Committee on Economic Affairs;and the Committee on the Environment,Nature Protection and Reactor Safety.
In the negotiations to form a grand coalition following the 2013 national elections,Aigner led the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on economic affairs;her co-chair from the SPD was Hubertus Heil. [15] On 17 December 2013,she became the first woman to ever chair a meeting of the Bavarian State Government. [16]
In the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder,Aigner briefly served as State Minister of Construction and Transport in 2018. On the Bundesrat,she became a member of the Committee on Transport and of the Committee on Urban Development,Housing and Regional Planning.
On 5 November 2018,Aigner was elected with 198 of 205 votes as new President of the Bavarian Landtag. [17] After the 2023 Bavarian state election she was re-elected with 164 of 200 votes. [18]
Aigner is a Roman Catholic. She is single and has no children. [24]
Angelika Niebler is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999. She is a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria,part of the European People's Party. Since 2015,she has been serving as her party's deputy chairwoman,under the leadership of successive chairmen Horst Seehofer and Markus Söder.
Brigitte Zypries is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Between 2017 and 2018,she served as Minister for Economics and Energy in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel;she was the first woman to hold that office in German history.
Barbara Stamm was a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. She joined the CSU in 1969,was a member of the town council of Würzburg from 1972,and a member of the Landtag of Bavaria from 1976. She was vice-chair of the CSU from 1993 to 2017,and President of the Landtag from 2008 to 2018,the first woman in the position. She was regarded as the most popular Bavarian politician and as her party's "social conscience".
Wolfgang Tiefensee is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the Federal Minister for Transport,Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2009. Since 2014,he has been the State Minister of Economy,Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior,Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU),he served as the 18th minister-president of Bavaria from 2008 to 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 2008 to 2019.
Gerhard "Gerd" Müller is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria,who is currently serving as Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization since 2021.
Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens.
Dorothee Gisela Renate Maria Bär is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. From 2014 to 2021,she served in various capacities in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Winfried Bausback is a German politician,representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
Markus Blume is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for Science and Arts in the cabinet of Minister President Markus Söder since 2022. From 2018 to 2022 he served as Secretary General of the CSU.
Gerhard Eck is a German politician,representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Albert Füracker is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). He has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since September 2008 and has served as Minister for Finance and Home Affairs of Bavaria since March 2018,
Julia Klöckner is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of Food,Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2012,she has also been part of the CDU leadership.
Marlene Mortler is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024 and as a member of the German Parliament from 2002 to 2019. She also served as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2019.
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) since 2019.
Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. In 2022,he briefly served as the Secretary General of the CSU,under the leadership of the party's chairman Markus Söder.
Martin Zeil is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag,the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.
Melanie Huml is a German physician and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder since 2021. She has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2003.
Maria Franziska Flachsbarth is a German veterinarian and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. Since 2011,she has also served as the president of the German Catholic Women's Association.
|}