Eckart von Klaeden

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von Klaeden

Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden (born 18 November 1965 in Hanover) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of State at the German Chancellery from 2009 to 2013.

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Early life and education

Eckart von Klaeden took his Abitur at the Emperor William Gymnasium in Hanover in 1985, served his military service from 1985 to 1987 and became a Korvettenkapitän (corvette captain) of the Reserves. He went on to study law at the universities of Würzburg and Göttingen, taking his first state exam in 1993 and his second in 1996.

Career

Von Klaeden became a member of the Junge Union in 1983. Between 1992 and 1996, he served on the board of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of successive chairmen Josef Stock (1992–94) and Christian Wulff (1994-96).

Von Klaeden served as member of the German parliament, the Bundestag, between 1994 and 2013. He was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (1994-1998) and of the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (2002-2005). Between 2000 and 2005, he also served as First Secretary of the parliamentary group, in this position assisting the parliamentary group's successive chairmen Friedrich Merz (2000-2002) and Angela Merkel (2002-2005). From 2005, he was his parliamentary group's spokesman for foreign policy. In addition to his committee assignments, von Klaeden served as chairman of the German-Hungarian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2002 until 2005.

Starting in 2004, von Klaeden was a member of the national board of the CDU under the leadership of chairwoman Angela Merkel. In this capacity, he was the party's treasurer from 2006 until 2013. [1]

In 2007, 2008 and 2009, von Klaeden participated at the Bilderberg Conference. [2]

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On 27 May 2013, von Klaeden informed the public that he would not run again for a seat in the Deutscher Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election and that he would start a job at the Daimler AG, Stuttgart as Manager, "Global External Affairs und Public Policy", chief lobbyist, at the end of 2013. [3] His abrupt switch to the company prompted an investigation by Berlin prosecutors and new rules on "cooling off" periods. [4]

At a November 2023 meeting of The Heritage Foundation, von Klaeden "implored Michael Anton to ask Trump to please talk to America's European allies as he formulated his foreign policy". [5]

Other activities

Personal life

He is a member of Atlantik-Brücke, Amnesty International and Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV).

Personal life

Von Klaeden is Protestant and a member of the presidium of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag, a Protestant organisation. He is married and has three daughters.

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  2. ↑ Anfrage auf abgeordnetenwatch.de
  3. ↑ spiegel.de: Wechsel zu Daimler: SPD fordert Entlassung von Staatsminister Klaeden
  4. ↑ Andrea Shalal (6 August 2017), German state premier on defensive over close ties with VW Reuters .
  5. ↑ Swan, Jonathan; Savage, Charlie; Haberman, Maggie (9 December 2023). "Fears of a NATO Withdrawal Rise as Trump Seeks a Return to Power". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  6. ↑ Council Agora Verkehrswende.
  7. ↑ CEPA Announces High-Level Advisory Group led by Gen. McMaster and Min. Kramp-Karrenbauer Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), press release of 6 July 2022.
  8. ↑ Board of Trustees Aspen Institute Deutschland.
  9. ↑ Members in Germany European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
  10. ↑ Presidium German Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations.
  11. ↑ Boards Archived 11 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
  12. ↑ Members Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
  13. ↑ About Us Middle East Peace Forum (NAFFO).
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