Malu Dreyer

Malu Dreyer
Malu Dreyer in 2014
Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate
Incumbent
Assumed office January 16, 2013
Preceded by	Kurt Beck
President of the Bundesrat
Incumbent
Assumed office November 1, 2016
Preceded by	Stanislaw Tillich
State Minister of Social Affairs of Rhineland-Palatinate
In office March 15, 2002 – January 15, 2013
Preceded by	Florian Gerster
Succeeded by	Alexander Schweitzer
Personal details
Born	(1961-02-06) February 6, 1961 (age 56) Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	University of Mainz
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Website	www.malu-dreyer.de

Maria Luise "Malu" Anna Dreyer (born February 6, 1961) is a German politician (SPD), currently serving as the Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate and President of the Bundesrat, which makes her deputy to the President of Germany. She is the first female Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate and the second female President of the Bundesrat.

Dreyer was born the second of three children of a principal and a teacher. Following a year as an exchange student at Claremont High School in California in 1977, and her final Abitur exams at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Neustadt in 1980, Dreyer started her English studies and Roman Catholic theology at the University of Mainz. The following year she switched majors to jurisprudence and graduated in both law degrees with the first Staatsexamen in 1987 and the second Staatsexamen three years later with an excellent academic record.

From 1989, Dreyer worked at the University of Mainz as a research assistant to Professor Hans-Joachim Pflug. In 1991 she received her appointment as a probationary judge, and later as a prosecutor in Bad Kreuznach.

Having served as State Minister of Social Affairs, Labor, Health and Demography since 2002, Dreyer was the designated successor of incumbent Minister-President Kurt Beck, who announced his upcoming resignation from the post on September 28, 2012. She was officially elected on January 16, 2013.