Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
| Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer | |
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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in 2015
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| Minister President of Saarland | |
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Assumed office 10 August 2011 |
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| Deputy |
Christoph Hartmann (2012–2013) Peter Jacoby (acting, 2012) Heiko Maas (2012–2013) Anke Rehlinger (2013–) |
| Preceded by | Peter Müller |
| Member of the Saarland Regional Parliament | |
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Assumed office September 1999 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
9 August 1962 Völklingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Alma mater |
Saarland University University of Trier |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 9 August 1962 in Völklingen) is a German politician of the CDU. Since 10 August 2011, she is the current Minister-President of the Saarland, succeeding Peter Müller. In 1998, she was a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
Kramp-Karrenbauer is from a conservative Catholic family. Between 1984 and 1990 she studied political science and law at University of Trier and Saarbrücken. Between 1991 and 1998 she was a policy officer for CDU Saarland.
Between 2000 and 2004, Kramp-Karrenbauer served as State Minister on Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Peter Müller; she was the first woman to hold that office in Germany.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart.
In January 2011, Kramp-Karrenbauer was named as successor to Müller, who went on to become a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
In January 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer ended a coalition that included the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and blamed the party for “dismantling itself.” She said that her three-party coalition – including the Greens as well as the FDP and her own CDU – had lost the necessary “trust, stability and capacity to act” with the liberals. Under Kramp-Karrenbauer’s leadership, the CDU won the state election shortly after, in what was widely regarded the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis; meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2 percent.
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