Volker Bouffier
| Volker Bouffier | |
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Volker Bouffier, 2016
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| Minister President of Hesse | |
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Assumed office 31 August 2010 |
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| Deputy | Tarek Al-Wazir |
| Preceded by | Roland Koch |
| Minister of Interior of Hesse | |
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In office 7 April 1999 – 31 August 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Roland Koch |
| Preceded by | Gerhard Bökel |
| Succeeded by | Boris Rhein |
| Secretary of State for Justice of Hesse | |
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In office 24 April 1987 – 5 April 1991 |
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| Prime Minister | Walter Wallmann |
| Preceded by | Hans Joachim Suchan |
| Succeeded by | Dieter Schmidt |
| Chairman of CDU Hesse | |
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Assumed office 12 Jun 2010 |
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| Prime Minister |
Roland Koch Volker Bouffier |
| Deputy |
Franz Josef Jung Eva Kühne-Hörmann Lucia Puttrich |
| Preceded by | Roland Koch |
| President of the Bundesrat | |
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In office 1 November 2014 – 31 October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Stephan Weil |
| Succeeded by | Stanislaw Tillich |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 December 1951 Gießen,  West Germany
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| Nationality | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Volker Bouffier (born 18 December 1951 in Giessen) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. Since 31 August 2010 he is Minister President of the German state of Hesse. He was President of the Bundesrat in 2014/15. He has been chairman of CDU in Hesse since July 2010. From 1999 to 2010, he was minister of interior and sports in the state of Hesse. Bouffier is a lawyer by profession.
Bouffier grew up in Giessen. His father Robert Bouffier (1920–1999) was a lawyer and CDU local politician in Giessen; his grandfather Robert Ferdinand August Bouffier (1883–1971) moved from Strasbourg to Giessen in 1906, where he later became a CDU politician. His paternal family is of French Huguenot ancestry.
He studied law at the University of Giessen and completed his studies in 1977. From 1975 to 1978 he was a research assistant in public law at the University of Giessen, and in 1978 he was called to the bar. He practiced law for many years in addition to his political activities and is currently a partner in the law firm Bouffier & Wolf; however since he became minister-president he has been an inactive partner.
Bouffier was first elected to the Parliament of the State of Hesse in 1982. He served as State Minister of the Interior and Sports in the government of Minister-President Roland Koch from 1999 to 2010.
When Koch announced his withdrawal from the political scene and resigned in August 2010, he nominated Bouffier as his successor to lead the center-right CDU-FDP government that was formed after the 2009 state elections.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2009 federal elections, Bouffier was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Wolfgang Schäuble and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.
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