Public office Christian Schmidt (politician)




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1.1 member of parliament, 1990-present
1.2 parliamentary state secretary in federal ministry of defence, 2005-2013
1.3 federal minister of food , agriculture, 2014–present





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from 1984 1990 christian schmidt town councillor in hometown of obernzenn , member of district council neustadt der aisch-bad windsheim.


member of parliament, 1990-present

schmidt elected german parliament, bundestag, in 1990 elections. 1991 2002 chair of national level csu working group foreign, defence , european policy. went on serve chair of cdu/csu parliamentary defence working group. in capacity served cdu/csu spokesman defence policy.


schmidt served chair of german-israeli parliamentary group 1994-1998 , chair german-british parliamentary group 1998-2005. has been member of german-baltic, german-croatian, , german-czech parliamentary groups. parliamentary rapporteur german-polish “good neighbour” treaty in 1991, 1992 german-czechoslovakia treaty. in 1997 federal minister of defence selected schmidt serve on advisory committee of german-czech discussion forum.


he rapporteur discussions pertaining parliamentary participation act of 2005 dealing deployment of german bundeswehr within federal republic.


schmidt entered german parliament directly elected candidate, representing fürth. in 2009 elections won 43.3% of first votes. in december 2012 nominated seventh time csu candidate upcoming federal parliamentary elections in 2013. csu assembly of delegates awarded him 98.7% of vote (155 of 157 votes).


parliamentary state secretary in federal ministry of defence, 2005-2013

christian schmidt @ german parliament


schmidt named parliamentary state secretary in federal ministry of defence chancellor angela merkel on 23 november 2005. in capacity served parliamentary , political representative 3 ministers of defence; franz josef jung, karl-theodor zu guttenberg , thomas de maizière.


during time in office schmidt advanced establishment of foundation care service members negatively impacted side effects of radar signals encountered during service. time in office has seen several landmark events including investigation wartime activities of world war ii german flying ace werner mölders (2007), reorientation of federal republic’s armed forces (since 2010) , resignation of defence minister zu guttenberg in wake of plagiarism scandal (2011). schmidt had defended zu guttenberg against accusations of plagiary. schmidt played instrumental role in establishment , financing of “hardship fund” (härtefall-stiftung). fund, maintained soldiers’ relief association e.v., founded in 2012 express remit of supporting soldiers injured in line of duty. fund provides support above , beyond standard duty of care laws in federal republic, thereby serving additional assistance veterans in need.


following resignation of zu guttenberg in 2011 schmidt remained in office , re-confirmed post new minister defense, thomas de maiziere. in negotiations form coalition government following 2013 federal elections, part of cdu/csu delegation in working group on foreign affairs, defense policy , development cooperation, led de maizière , frank-walter steinmeier.


federal minister of food , agriculture, 2014–present

since 2014, schmidt has been federal minister of food , agriculture in third cabinet of chancellor angela merkel; succeeded parliamentary state secretary thomas silberhorn.


in response 2016 collapse in milk prices, schmidt rolled out emergency package of @ least €100 million country’s dairy farmers, including loans , tax relief. during time in office, germany culled 776,000 farm chickens, turkeys, ducks , other types of poultry between november 2016 , january 2017 combat bird flu.








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