High Representative since August 1, 2021 • Federal Minister (former) • Member of the German Bundestag since 1990 • Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and rapporteur for the Western Balkan States • Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture from 17 February 2014 to 14 March 2018 • Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2013 to 2014 • Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defense from 2005 to 2013 • Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Defense 2002-2005 • Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Group for Foreign Policy, Defense and European Affairs for the CSU Parliamentary Group 1991- 2002 • Representing CSU Parliamentary Group in the Western Balkans advisory circle of Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1992 to 1998 • President of the German Atlantic Association since 2006 • Vice-Chair of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation since 2018 • Treasurer and member of the Presidency of the European People’s Party • Vice-Chair of the CSU from 2011 to 2017 • Born in 1957 in Obernzenn (Franconia);married, father of two children • Lawyer by profession;University of Erlangen and University of Lausanne