Reinhold Hilbers (born 25 July 1964 in

Lingen Lingen (), officially Lingen (Ems), is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2024, its population was 59,896 with 2,262 people who had registered the city as their secondary residence. Lingen, specifically "Lingen (Ems)" is located on the river Ems ...

) is a German businessman and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony since March 2003. From 2017 to 2022, served as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President

Stephan Weil Stephan Weil (born 15 December 1958) is a German politician and the leader of the Social Democratic Party in Lower Saxony. On 20 January 2013, the SPD and the Green party won the 2013 Lower Saxony state election by one seat. On 19 February 20 ...

Early life and career

After training in the wholesale and export business, Hilbers completed

military service Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer military, volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Few nations, such ...

in the Bundeswehr. Then, he studied economics at the

Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule Osnabrück, formerly ''Fachhochschule Osnabrück'') is a university of applied science in Lower Saxony, whose administrative centre is in Osnabrück. It has existed in its current form ...

. Between 1993 and 1999, he worked at a local bank. From 1999 he served as managing director of Lebenshilfe Nordhorn GmbH.

Political career

Hilbers became a member of the CDU in 1988. At present he is chairman of the CDU district of

Grafschaft Bentheim County of Bentheim () is a districts of Germany, district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Netherlands, Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe, the district of Emsland, and the distri ...

. Since the 2003 state elections, Hilbers has been a member of the State Parliament of Lower Saxony. He was elected with 72.2% of the votes to represent his constituency in parliament. In the 2008 state elections, he obtained 55.6% of the votes. From 2013 until 2017, he served as deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. In 2017,

Bernd Althusmann Bernd Althusmann (; born 3 December 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Deputy Minister-President and State Minister for Economic Affairs in the government of Minister-President Stephan Weil from 2 ...

included Hilbers in his shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President

; during the campaign, he was in charge of social policy issues. Hilbers eventually became State Minister of Finance. In this capacity, he was one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, where he served on the Finance Committee. Hilbers was nominated by his party as delegate to the

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for the purpose of electing the

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

* Stability Council, Ex-Officio Member (2017–2022)

Corporate boards

Deutsche Messe AG Deutsche Messe AG () is the operating company for the Hanover Fairground, based in the city of Hanover, Germany. It is the largest trade fair operator in Germany and was founded in 1947. One of the main trade fairs held is Hannover Messe Th ...

, Member of the Advisory Board * Bentheimer Eisenbahn AG, Chairman of the supervisory board (since 2017) *

KfW The KfW, which together with its subsidiaries DEG, KfW IPEX-Bank and FuB forms the KfW Bankengruppe ("banking group"), is a German state-owned investment and development bank, based in Frankfurt. As of 2014, it is the world's largest national ...

, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors *

Norddeutsche Landesbank The Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (abbreviated NORD/LB) is a German Landesbank and one of the largest commercial banks in Germany. It is a public corporation majority-owned by the federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with its he ...

(NORD/LB), Ex-Officio Chairman of the supervisory board (since 2017), previously Member of the Advisory Board *

Salzgitter AG Salzgitter AG is a German company, one of the largest steel producers in Europe with an annual output of around seven million tonnes. With over 100 subsidiaries and associated companies, the Group is structured in four business units – Stee ...

, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

, Member of the SenateSenate, as of April 6, 2020

References

External links

Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands web site
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