Colette Bettina Boos-John (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Bauer; born 3 September 1969) is a German politician from the

Christian Democratic Union of Germany The Christian Democratic Union of Germany ( , CDU ) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is the major party of the centre-right in German politics. Friedrich Merz has been federal chairman of the CDU since 31 ...

(CDU). She has been since 2024 .

Life

Education and career

Boos-John studied

business administration Business administration is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. Overview The administration of a business includes the performance o ...

at the Gießen-Friedberg University of Applied Sciences from 1989 to 1992 and graduated with a degree in business administration. She then joined her parents' road, civil engineering and building construction company ''Bauer Bauunternehmen GmbH'' and was its commercial director from 1992 to 1997. In 1997, she took over the company as managing partner. She founded the ''Bauer Academy'' in 2012 and completed training as a business coach in 2022 , which is dvct -certified. In 2024, she founded the investment company ''B & J GmbH & Co. KG'' as managing director and sold the construction company to .

Politics and volunteering

Boos-John is a member of the CDU. She was a member of the board of the

Economic Council An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with th ...

of the CDU

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Central Germany (cultural area), Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000. It lies in the wide valley of the Gera (river), River Gera, in the so ...

from 2009 to 2016 . In 2015, she became a board member of , where she became chairwoman of the West Thuringia regional group and state chairwoman of Thuringia in 2019. In addition, she took on the honorary position of Vice President of the in 2016 and head of the IHK SME network in 2021. In addition, she was active in the SME network of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. From 2018 to 2019, she was a mentor in the ThEx Frauensache program of the Thuringian Center for Start-ups and Entrepreneurship. In 2022, she became a member of the Thuringian Standards Control Council. In 2024, she also became active as a role model entrepreneur in the "FRAUEN unternehmen" initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. On 13 December 2024, Boos-John was appointed in the Voigt Cabinet.

Awards

* Ehrennadel Badge of Honour of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2022) * Wilhelm-Röpke Medal of the Thuringian State Association of the Economic Council Wirtschaftsrates of the CDU (2024)

External links

Colette Boos-John
on the website of the Thuringian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Rural Areas

References

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