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Steffen Bilger

Steffen Bilger (born 16 February 1979) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Ludwigsburg since 2009.

From 2018 until 2021, Bilger served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

After graduation in 1998 at Max Born High School in Backnang, Bilger did his civil service. He then studied law at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, which he finished in 2004 with the first state law examination. In 2006, Bilger completed a legal traineeship at the Stuttgart Regional Court with the second state law exam.

In 2007, Bilger was admitted as a lawyer and founded a law firm together with two colleagues. From 2006 until 2009, he also worked in the strategy department of the Mannheim-based energy service company MVV Energie.

Already as a student Bilger joined the Young Union (JU) in 1996 and was also a member of the CDU. From 1998 to 1999 he served as chairman of the Baden-Württemberg state branch of the Pupils' Union and from 1998 to 2000 as federal managing director of the Pupils Union Germany. In 2006, Bilger was elected chairman of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg and was confirmed in office in the years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In 2011, Bilger was elected district chairman of the CDU North Württemberg, the largest of the four CDU districts in Baden-Württemberg. He won clearly against his competitor, the former Secretary of State for Arts, Dietrich Birk. After his election as CDU district chairman, he ran again as country chairman of the Junge Union and was replaced in this office on 12 November 2011 by the Mannheim CDU city councillor Nikolas Löbel.

In the 2009 federal election, Bilger won the direct mandate in constituency of Ludwigsburg with 39.9% of the vote and became a member of the German Bundestag. In the 17th Bundestag he was a full member in the Committee on Transport, Construction and Urban Development, a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and a deputy member of the Committees Health and Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. He was also a full member of the Enquete Commission Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life.

In the 2013 federal election, Bilger won again with 50.4% of the vote the direct mandate in constituency of Ludwigsburg. In the 18th Bundestag, he was a full member in the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development, the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and in the Joint Committee. He has also been Chairman of the MIT Transport Forum since 2013 and since 2016 a full member of the Conciliation Committee of the German Bundestag and the Bundesrat. On the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Bilger served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on electric vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles.

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