FORA.tv Speaker - Wolfgang Schauble

Dr. Wolfgang Schauble has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1972 and served as the parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group from 1981 to 1984. Previously, he held the offices of federal minister for special tasks and head of the Federal Chancellery before serving as federal minister of the interior from 1989 to 1991.

Minister Schauble has been a member of the CDU National Executive Committee since 1989. He has held the positions of head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag (1991- 2000) and national chairman of the CDU (1998-2000). Since then, he has been a member of the CDU Presidium.

Additionally, Minister Schauble was the deputy head of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag for Foreign, Security and European Policy from 2002 until he was again appointed federal minister of the interior in 2005.

He studied law and economics and was awarded a law degree in 1971.