Armin Laschet
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Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Designate |
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| Preceded by | Hannelore Kraft |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1999 – 2005 |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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In office 1994 – 1998 |
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Armin Laschet 19 February 1961 Aachen, West Germany (now Germany) |
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Christian Democratic Union European People's Party (EU) |
| Alma mater |
University of Munich, University of Bonn |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Armin Laschet (born 18 February 1961) is a German politician. He currently serves as one of five deputy chairmen of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and head of the party in Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. He is expected to become Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia following his party's election victory in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2017.
Laschet was born in Burtscheid, a suburb of Aachen near the Belgian and Dutch borders, to an observant Roman Catholic family. His father was a supervisor at a black coal mine and later became an elementary school teacher and headmaster. He attended the Pius-Gymnasium in Aachen and studied law at the universities of Bonn and Munich, passing the first state examination in law in 1987. He studied journalism from 1986 to 1988. In Munich he became a member of K.D.St.V. Aenania München, a Catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband.
Laschet worked as a journalist and in the publishing industry from 1986 until 1991, including as Bonn correspondent for Bayerischer Rundfunk. He later served as editor-in-chief of KirchenZeitung Aachen from 1991 until 1994.
Following the 1994 national elections, Laschet became a member of the German Bundestag. He served on the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development as well as on the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.
As Member of the European Parliament, Laschet served on the Committee on Budgets between 1999 and 2001 and on the Committee on Foreign Affairs between 2002 and 2005. In the latter capacity, he served as the Parliament’s rapporteur on relations between the EU and the United Nations.
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