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Katherina Reiche
Katherina Reiche (born 16 July 1973) is a German manager and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the cabinet of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since May 2025.
From 1998 to 2015, she was a member of the German Bundestag, serving from 2005 to 2009 as one of the deputy chairpersons of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. From 2009 to 2013, she was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2013 to 2015, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In September 2015, she resigned her seat in the Bundestag.
After receiving her Abitur in 1992, she studied chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Clarkson University in New York and the University of Turku in Finland. In 1997, she received her diploma.
In 1992, Reiche was one of the founding members of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (Association of Christian-Democrat Students, RCDS) in Potsdam and in the same year she joined the Young Union (JU). Since 1996 she has also been member of the CDU.
In 2000 Reiche became a member of the federal executive of the CDU. From 2001 to 2015, she was also part of the party's executive board in the state of Brandenburg.
During the election campaign in 2002, Reiche was part of the CDU/CSU's competence team appointed by then chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber, as an expert on women, youth and family policies. This decision was criticized by conservative circles inside the two parties, because Reiche was an unmarried mother at that point in time.
From 2005 until 2009, Reiche served as deputy chairwoman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Volker Kauder. In this capacity, she was in charge of overseeing the policy areas Education and Science as well as Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Reiche was part of the working group on the environment, agriculture and consumer protection, led by Ilse Aigner and Michael Kauch.
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Katherina Reiche
Katherina Reiche (born 16 July 1973) is a German manager and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the cabinet of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since May 2025.
From 1998 to 2015, she was a member of the German Bundestag, serving from 2005 to 2009 as one of the deputy chairpersons of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. From 2009 to 2013, she was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2013 to 2015, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In September 2015, she resigned her seat in the Bundestag.
After receiving her Abitur in 1992, she studied chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Clarkson University in New York and the University of Turku in Finland. In 1997, she received her diploma.
In 1992, Reiche was one of the founding members of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (Association of Christian-Democrat Students, RCDS) in Potsdam and in the same year she joined the Young Union (JU). Since 1996 she has also been member of the CDU.
In 2000 Reiche became a member of the federal executive of the CDU. From 2001 to 2015, she was also part of the party's executive board in the state of Brandenburg.
During the election campaign in 2002, Reiche was part of the CDU/CSU's competence team appointed by then chancellor candidate Edmund Stoiber, as an expert on women, youth and family policies. This decision was criticized by conservative circles inside the two parties, because Reiche was an unmarried mother at that point in time.
From 2005 until 2009, Reiche served as deputy chairwoman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Volker Kauder. In this capacity, she was in charge of overseeing the policy areas Education and Science as well as Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Reiche was part of the working group on the environment, agriculture and consumer protection, led by Ilse Aigner and Michael Kauch.