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Master's in Business Education; PhD, University of Regensburg. 1978-88: Deputy Mayor and Member of the County Council; 1980-89, Policy Officer, Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. 1989-94, Member of the European Parliament. Since 1994, Member of the German Parliament (Bundestag); spokesman of the group of parliamentarians from the CSU (Christian Social Union) in the German Bundestag for foreign affairs, European policy and development policy; 2005-13, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection; since December 2013, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development.