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German businessman and politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reinhold Hilbers (born 25 July 1964 in Lingen) 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.
Reinhold Hilbers | |
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Minister of Finance of Lower Saxony | |
In office 21 November 2017 – 8 November 2022 | |
Preceded by | Peter-Jürgen Schneider |
Succeeded by | Gerald Heere |
Personal details | |
Born | Lingen, Lower Saxony, West Germany (now Germany) | 25 July 1964
Occupation | German businessman and politician |
After training in the wholesale and export business, Hilbers completed military service in the Bundeswehr. Then, he studied economics at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Between 1993 and 1999, he worked at a local bank. From 1999 he served as managing director of Lebenshilfe Nordhorn GmbH.[1]
Hilbers became a member of the CDU in 1988. At present he is chairman of the CDU district of Grafschaft Bentheim.
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 included Hilbers in his shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats’ campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President Stephan Weil; 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 Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022.[2]
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