Reinhard Brandl | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2009 |
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Preceded by | Horst Seehofer |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ingolstadt, Bavaria |
11 August 1977
Nationality | German |
Political party |
![]() Christian Social Union ![]() European People's Party |
Alma mater |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Technische Universität München |
Dr. Reinhard Brandl (born Ingolstadt, August 1, 1977) is a member of the German Bundestag, representing Ingolstadt. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
Following his military service with the German Air Force in Manching, Brandl earned a degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble between 1997 and 2003. For his diploma theses he stayed six months at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Meylan. He subsequently took part in the doctoral program of the BMW Group. In 2009, he briefly worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group.
Brand was elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 national elections, succeeding Horst Seehofer.
Brandl has been a member of the Defense Committee since 2009. In 2013, he joined the Budget Committee, where he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budget of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). In addition, he is a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.