Reinhold Hilbers

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Reinhold Hilbers
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Reinhold Hilbers
Born (1964-07-25) 25 July 1964 (age 57)
OccupationGerman businessman and politician

Reinhold Hilbers (born 25 July 1964 in Lingen) is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been a member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony since March 2003. Since November 2017, he has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President Stephan Weil.

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Early life and career

After training in the wholesale and export business, he undertook military service in the Bundeswehr. Then, he studied economics at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Between 1993 and 1999, he worked at a local bank. From 1999 he served as managing director of Lebenshilfe Nordhorn GmbH. [1]

Political career

Hilbers became a member of the CDU in 1988. At present he is chairman of the CDU district of Grafschaft Bentheim.

Since the 2003 state elections, Hilbers has been a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony. He was elected with 72.2% of the votes to represent his constituency in parliament. In the 2008 state elections, he obtained 55.6% of the votes. From 2013 until 2017, he served as deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

In 2017, Bernd Althusmann included Hilbers in his shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President Stephan Weil; during the campaign, he was in charge of social policy issues. Hilbers eventually became State Minister of Finance. In this capacity, he is one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, where he serves on the Finance Committee.

Hilbers was nominated by his party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022. [2]

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References

  1. "Zur Person". reinhold-hilbers.de. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
  2. Drucksache 18/10450: Niedersächsische Mitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung am 13. Februar 2022 State Parliament of Lower Saxony.
  3. Chair and Members Stability Council.
  4. Board of Supervisory Directors and its Committees KfW.
  5. Minister Reinhold Hilbers ist Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates der Nord/LB Government of Lower Saxony, press release of 29 November 2017.
  6. 2016 Annual Report Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB).
  7. Minister Reinhold Hilbers nimmt Aufsichtsratsmandat bei der Salzgitter AG wahr Government of Lower Saxony, press release of 12 December 2017.
  8. Senate, as of April 6, 2020 Max Planck Society.