Early life and career
After attending the Martin-Behaim-Gymnasium in Nuremberg Kastler studied history and political sciences in Erlangen and Prague. From 1996 to 1997, he gathered experience in the field of European policy as an employee in the Foreign Policy Department of the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel. Thereafter, he became press spokesman for the Nuremberg Metropole region and editor for DATEV. Since 1996, he worked freelance as a journalist and publicist. From 2004 until his re-entrance into the European Parliament in December 2008, he was head of the Development Policy Department and Coordinator for EU-Projects for the Hanns Seidel Foundation. After leaving the European Parliament, he headed the Central European project of the Hanns Seidel Foundation based in Prague as a representative and regional manager, responsible for the activities of the CSU-affiliated foundation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. After returning to the foundation headquarters, he moved to the Bavarian State Chancellery in Munich and worked as personal advisor to the two state ministers Melanie Huml and afterwards Eric Beißwenger. In April 2024 he was appointed head of the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in the Czech Republic.
Martin Kastler is married, has three children and lives in Schwabach and Prague
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