Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

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This curriculum vitae refers to former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier.  Mr Altmaier was Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 14 March 2018 until 8 December 2021 in the Merkel IV cabinet.

You can find the curriculum vitae of the current Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the Merz cabinet, Katherina Reiche, here.

Previous positions:

2018 - 2021
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

2013 - 2018
Head of the Federal Chancellery, Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Federal Government Refugee Coordinator (since 2015)

2012 - 2013
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

2009 - 2012
First Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group

2005 - 2009
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior

2004 - 2005
Legal counsel of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group

2002 - 2003
Spokesperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the First Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry

1999 - 2003
Delegate of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the European Convention on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and at the European Convention on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

1994 - 2004
Member of the European Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag

1994 - 1998
Member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag

Education and other professional activity

1980 - 1988
Study of law at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, first and second state examinations in law (in 1985 and 1988 respectively)

1986
Post-graduate course in “European integration”

1985 - 1990
Research assistant, first at the chair for public and international law and later at the Institute for Europe at Saarland University

1990 - 1994
Civil servant with the European Commission; Directorate-General for employment, labour relations and social affairs at the European Commission, from 1993 until 1994 secretary-general of the administrative commission for the social security of migrant workers

In 2006, Peter Altmaier became President of the German section of the Union of European Federalists (UEF); in 2011, he assumed the office as Honorary President.

Peter Altmaier was born in Ensdorf in Saarland on 18 June 1958.