Ole Schröder | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 2002 – 2017 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Rellingen, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany (now Germany) |
August 27, 1971
Citizenship | German |
Nationality | German |
Political party | CDU |
Spouse(s) | Kristina Schröder |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Politician |
Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971 in Rellingen) is a German politician and member of the CDU. Since 2009 he has been Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Between 2001 and 2009, Schröder worked as a lawyer with law firm White & Case in Hamburg.
Schröder first became a member of the Bundestag following the 2002 federal elections. Between 2002 and 2009, he served as a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure. A member of the Budget Committee between 2005 and 2009, he served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ). During that time, he was also the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia). From 2007, Schröder led the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from Schleswig-Holstein.
Since 2009, Schröder has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry of the Interior under ministers Thomas de Maizière (2009-2011 and since 2013) and Hans-Peter Friedrich (2011–2013) in the second and third cabinets of Chancellor Angela Merkel. In this capacity, he is in charge of information technology and sport.