Gerd Müller (politician)
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Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development Germany
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Assumed office 17 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Dirk Niebel |
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Assumed office 1994 |
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25 August 1955 Krumbach, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Christian Social Union in Bavaria |
Gerd Müller (born 25 August 1955 as Gerhard Müller in the town of Krumbach, district of Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany) is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. He is the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development.
Between 1989 and 1994, Müller was a Member of the European Parliament, where he served on the Committee on Transport and Tourism and on the Joint Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Economic Community (ACP-EEC).
Since 1994, Müller has been a member of the German Parliament (Bundestag) following the federal election that year. He served on the committees for foreign and defense policy and was the spokesman on Europe, foreign, and development policy for the CSU group.
From 2005 to 2013, Müller served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection under ministers Horst Seehofer (2005–2008) and Ilse Aigner (2008–2013) in the first and second cabinets of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In this capacity, he was responsible for international relations, third-world development projects, and world food aid programs, among other issues. In 2011, he participated in the first first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and China in Berlin; his counterpart in the Chinese government at the time was Han Changfu.
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