- Horst Seehofer
Infobox Minister
name = Horst Seehofer
office = Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
term_start =November 22 2005
term_end =
predecessor =Renate Künast
successor =
office2 = Federal Minister of Health
term_start2 =May 6 1992
term_end2 =October 26 1998
predecessor2 =Gerda Hasselfeldt
successor2 =Andrea Fischer
birth_date = Birth date and age|1949|7|4|mf=y
birth_place =Ingolstadt ,Germany
death_date =
death_place =
alma_mater =
profession =
nationality = German
party = CSU
website = [http://www.horst-seehofer.de/ horst-seehofer.de]Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born
July 4 1949 inIngolstadt ) is a German politician (CSU). He was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from1992 to1998 and now serves as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet ofAngela Merkel .Member of the Bundestag
He has been a member of the Lower House of the German Parliament ("
Bundestag ") in Germany since 1980. He became assistant chairman of the CDU/CSU faction of the "Bundestag" in October 1998. Because of his disagreement with flat-rate contributions ("Gesundheitsprämie") to the federal health insurance he resigned from his post onNovember 22 2004 but remained the assistant chairman of the CSU and kept his mandate.Since joining the "Bundestag" Horst Seehofer has kept his mandate as a directly elected delegate ("Direktkandidat") from his
Constituency Ingolstadt . At the 2005 federal election he received 65.9 percent of the first votes.Prime Minister in Bavaria
Seehofer is nominated to be the next prime minister of
Bavaria , who will be elected by Bavarian parliament in the end of October. Heis the only candidate as new president of the CSU for the election on the next CSU-party conference, too.External links
* [http://www.horst-seehofer.de/ Official Site of Seehofer]
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