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Melanie Huml (née Beck; born 9 September 1975) is a German physician and politician of the
Christian Social Union of Bavaria The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (German language, German: , CSU) is a Christian democracy, Christian democratic and Conservatism in Germany, conservative List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. Having a regionali ...
(CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President
Markus Söder Markus Thomas Theodor Söder (born 5 January 1967) is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as List of Ministers-President of Bavaria, Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, lead ...
since 2021. She has been a member of the
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since October 2003. Prior to her current role in Bavaria's state government, Huml served as State Minister for Health and Nursing in the cabinets of successive Minister-Presidents
Horst Seehofer Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior, Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), he served as the ...
(2013-2018) and Söder (2018–2021). She also served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women from 2007 to 2008, and later served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Health from 2008 to 2013.


Early life

Huml was born to Michael and Marianne Beck in 1975 in
Bamberg Bamberg (, , ; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Bambärch'') is a town in Upper Franconia district in Bavaria, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main (river), Main. Bamberg had 79,000 inhabitants in ...
,
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. After completing
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in
Hallstadt Hallstadt is a town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg on the left bank of the Main, 4 km north of Bamberg. Geography Hallstadt borders in the south on the city of Bamberg and in the west on the Main. There are two constituent comm ...
, she attended Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium Bamberg (KHG) until graduating in 1995. She subsequently studied human medicine at the
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. Huml became a licensed doctor by graduation on 1 October 2004. She has not completed any "Weiterbildung zum Facharzt" (German
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training after
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) so far.


Political career


Career in state politics

In 1993, Huml began her political career as a member of the
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(JU), the youth organization of the CSU and its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union, and served as a member of the State Committee of the Bavarian Youth Union from 2003 to 2001. She joined the CSU in 2001 and has been a member of the district board of
Upper Franconia Upper Franconia (, ) is a (administrative 'Regierungs''region 'bezirk'' of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, wh ...
since 2003. In the 2003 state election, Huml was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria in the
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of Upper Franconia. In the Landtag, she served as a member of the Committee for Social, Health and Family Policy until 2007. In October 2007, Huml was appointed by Minister-President Günther Beckstein as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women in his Cabinet. Starting in May 2008, she concurrently held a position on the City Council of Bamberg, a body she would serve on until April 2014. She has represented the constituency of Bamberg City in the Landtag since 2008 as a result of that year's state election. Newly elected Minister-President Horst Seehofer appointed Huml as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Environment and Health in October 2008, a position she would hold until her appointment as Minister of Health and Nursing in 2013. Since 2017, Huml has been serving as one of five deputy chairs of the CSU, under the leadership of chairmen
Horst Seehofer Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior, Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), he served as the ...
(2017–2019) and
Markus Söder Markus Thomas Theodor Söder (born 5 January 1967) is a German politician from Bavaria, Germany serving as List of Ministers-President of Bavaria, Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, lead ...
(since 2019). Under Huml's leadership, Bavaria confirmed Germany's first cases of
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in late January 2020. By July 2020, she oversaw the government's effort to make free testing available to all residents and invest 200 million euros to expand laboratory capacity, both public and private. As part of a
cabinet reshuffle A cabinet reshuffle or shuffle occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet, or when the head of state changes the head of government and a number of ministers. They are more common in parliam ...
following criticism of Huml's crisis management during the pandemic, Söder replace her with Klaus Holetschek and instead appointed her State Minister for European and International Affairs.


Role in national politics

Huml was a CSU delegate to the
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for the purpose of electing the
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in 2004 and 2009. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Huml is a member of the Health Committee. She is also a member of the German-French Friendship Group set up by the
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and the
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, the German-Russian Friendship Group set up in cooperation with the Russian Federation Council, and the German-Polish Friendship Group set up in cooperation with the
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. In the negotiations to form a
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under the leadership of
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Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leade ...
following the 2013 federal elections, Huml was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on health policy, led by
Jens Spahn Jens Georg Spahn (born 16 May 1980) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the lower house of the federal parliament, the Bundestag (, MdB), for Steinfurt I – Borken I since 2002. Since 2025, he ...
and
Karl Lauterbach Karl Wilhelm Lauterbach (; born 21 February 1963) is a German scientist, physician, and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as Federal Minister of Health from 2021 to 2025. He is professor of health economics ...
. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, she was again part of the working group on health policy, this time led by
Hermann Gröhe Gottfried Hermann Gröhe (born 25 February 1961) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister of Health in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. Early life an ...
, Georg Nüßlein and
Malu Dreyer Marie-Luise "Malu" Dreyer (born 6 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the 8th minister-president of Rhineland-Palatinate from 2013 to 2024. She is the first woman to hold this office. She serv ...
.


Other activities

* European Academy of Bavaria, Member of the Board of Trustees *
Hanns Seidel Foundation The Hanns Seidel Foundation ('' German: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung e.V.; Abbreviation: HSS'') is a German political party foundation. It is politically associated with but independent of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) party and taxpayer- ...
, Member *
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, Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees


Personal life

Huml has been married to attorney Markus Huml since May 2005 and is the mother of two sons, born in 2012 and 2015, respectively. She is a
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.


References

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