Michael Stübgen
OfficeDeputy Minister-President of Brandenburg
Prime ministerDietmar Woidke
PredecessorChristian Görke
SuccessorRobert Crumbach
Term start20 November 2019
Term end11 December 2024
Office 1Minister for the Interior and Communal Affairs of Brandenburg
Prime minister 1Dietmar Woidke
Predecessor 1Karl-Heinz Schröter
Successor 1Katrin Lange
Term start 120 November 2019
Term end 111 December 2024
Office 2Parliamentary State Secretary of Food and Agriculture
Minister 2Julia Klöckner
Predecessor 2Peter Bleser
Maria Flachsbarth
Successor 2Uwe Feiler
Term start 214 March 2018
Term end 220 November 2019
Office 3Member of the Bundestag
for Brandenburg
Predecessor 3Constituency established
Successor 3Saskia Ludwig
Term start 320 December 1990
Term end 32 December 2019
Constituency 3
Birth date17 October 1959 (age 67)
Birth placeLauchhammer, East Germany
PartyCDU

Michael Stübgen (born 17 October 1959) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 1990 till 2019.[1]

Political career

Member of the German Parliament, 1990–2019

Stübgen joined the CDU in 1990.

Stübgen was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2019, where he was deputy chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 1994 to 1998. He was Chairman of the Brandenburg regional group in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1998. From 2005 to 2018, Stübgen was also the European policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairman of the parliamentary group working group on European Union affairs. From October 2011 to March 2018, Stübgen was also a deputy member of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the FDP following the 2009 federal elections, Stübgen was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense, Europe and development policy, led by Franz Josef Jung and Werner Hoyer.[2]

From 2018 to 2019, Stübgen served as Parliamentary State Secretary under minister Julia Klöckner at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Career in state government

Since 2019, Stübgen has been serving as chairman of the CDU in Brandenburg. Following the 2019 state elections, he was appointed State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in Brandenburg on November 20, 2019.

In December 2022, Stübgen announced his intention to resign as chairman of the CDU in Brandenburg.[3]

Other activities

  • German Forum for Crime Prevention (DFK), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)[4]

References

  1. ^ "CDU-Abgeordnete kritisiert kirchliches Klimafasten" (in German). katholisch.de. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
  2. ^ Koalitionsverhandlungen: Wen Union und FDP zum Feilschen schicken Spiegel Online, October 6, 2009.
  3. ^ Thorsten Metzner (9 December 2022), Mitgliederbefragung zur Nachfolge: Innenminister Michael Stübgen gibt Vorsitz der CDU Brandenburg ab Der Tagesspiegel.
  4. ^ Board of Trustees German Forum for Crime Prevention (DFK).