Matthias Wissmann
| Matthias Wissmann | |
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| Federal Minister of Transport | |
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In office 1993–1998 |
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| Chancellor | Helmut Kohl |
| Preceded by | Günther Krause |
| Succeeded by | Franz Müntefering |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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In office 1976 – 2007 |
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15 April 1949 Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
Matthias Wissmann (born 15 April 1949) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who currently serves as the president of the German Automobile Industry Association (VdA).
Since 1999 Wissmann has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.
Wissmann was born in Ludwigsburg on 15 April 1949. He studied law at the University of Bonn. He became a member of K.D.St.V. Alania Bonn, a catholic student fraternity that is member of the Cartellverband.
Since 1965, Wissmann has been active in politics. He became a member of the political youth organisation Junge Union and in 1968 of the CDU. From 1973 to 1983 he was federal leader of the Junge Union.
In 1976, Wissmann was elected to the German Bundestag for the Christlich-Demokratische Union. In 1981, he was chairman of the commission Jugendprotest im demokratischen Staat (youth protest in the democratic state) until 1983. In the years 1983 until 1993 he was the spokesman of his parliamentary group for economic affairs, under the leadership of successive chairmen Alfred Dregger and Wolfgang Schäuble.
On 21 January 1993, Wissmann became Federal Minister of Research and Technology in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Only four month later, after the resignation of Günther Krause, he became Federal Minister of Transport on 13 May 1993.
During his time in office, Wissmann – together with the Governing Mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen and the Minister-President of Brandenburg Manfred Stolpe – committed to Schönefeld as the site for the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport on 28 May 1996. This so-called consensus decision was later affirmed by the respective state legislatures.
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