Armin Schuster | |
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.jpg) Schuster in 2020 | |
| State Minister of the Interior of Saxony | |
| Assumed office 22 April 2022 | |
| Minister-President | Michael Kretschmer |
| Preceded by | Roland Wöller |
| President of theFederal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance | |
| In office 10 November 2020 – 22 April 2022 | |
| Minister | |
| Vice President | Thomas Herzog |
| Preceded by | Christoph Unger |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Tiesler |
| Chair of the Breitscheidplatz truck attack Inquiry Committee | |
| In office 1 March 2018 – 26 September 2019 | |
| Deputy | Mahmut Özdemir |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Klaus-Dieter Gröhler |
| Chair of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel | |
| In office 18 January 2018 – 5 November 2020 | |
| Deputy | Konstantin von Notz |
| Preceded by | Clemens Binninger |
| Succeeded by | Roderich Kiesewetter |
| Member of theBundestag forLörrach – Müllheim | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 9 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Marion Caspers-Merk |
| Succeeded by | Christian Natterer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-05-20)20 May 1961 (age 64) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union(1987–) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Hochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung University of Hagen Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei |
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Armin Schuster (born 20 May 1961) is a German politician. A member of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU), Schuster has been serving as State Minister of Internal Affairs in thegovernment ofMinister-PresidentMichael Kretschmer since 2022.[1]
Schuster was the president of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) from 2020 to 2022[2] and aMember of theBundestag from 2009 to 2020.
Schuster was born inAndernach. From 1980 to 1983, he attended the Federal College of Public Administration inCologne andLübeck. From 1983 to 1986, he worked for theFederal Border Police inBrunswick. From 1986 to 1992, he studied economics at theFernuniversität Hagen, and he subsequently passed the career certificate for the higher service at thecollege of police inMünster.
At the same time, Schuster worked in theFederal Ministry of the Interior between 1985 and 1989. From 1999 to 2002, he was a lecturer at the Federal University of Applied Sciences and Head of Quality Management in Lübeck. Afterwards, he served as Deputy Head of the Federal Police OfficeFrankfurt (Oder). From 2004 to 2009, Schuster then headed as police director of the Federal Police OfficeWeil am Rhein.[3] Schuster is also European Quality System Manager and Auditor Senior Quality Manager.
Schuster has been a member of the CDU since 1987. From October 2009 to 2012, he was deputy chairman, and since 2012 has been chairman of the Lörrach CDU district association.[4][5] In February 2018, Schuster relinquished the district presidency.[6]
From the 2009 elections Schuster served as a member of the German Bundestag for the constituency ofLörrach – Müllheim, regularly winning the direct mandate; in the 17th legislature, he was also a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs.[7] He was re-elected at the2013 federal election. In the 18th Bundestag he was chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs a member of theParliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr).[8] From the year 2015 until the end of the legislative period Schuster was also chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the 3rd Committee of Inquiry for theNSU case.
Schuster wasdirectly elected to the German Bundestag on 24 September 2017 for the third time. In the 19th electoral term, he again assumed the function of chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Committee on Internal Affairs. He was also elected chairman of the PKGr. In addition, he was elected as chairman of the first committee of inquiry on the2016 Berlin truck attack,[9] which is charged with investigating the circumstances of the terrorist attack of 19 December 2016 and, if necessary, drawing conclusions.
In the negotiations to form afourth coalition government underChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Schuster was part of the working group on migration policy, led byVolker Bouffier,Joachim Herrmann andRalf Stegner. In 2018, news media reported that Schuster had been MinisterHorst Seehofer’s preferred choice to succeedHans-Georg Maaßen as President of theFederal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; however, Chancellor Merkel reportedly vetoed the appointment.[10] Shortly after, in a vote on the successor ofStephan Harbarth as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, he lost out againstThorsten Frei.[11]
In addition to his committee work, each year Schuster awarded a scholarship under the Parliamentary Sponsorship Program to students or young professionals in his constituency.[12]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition under the leadership ofFriedrich Merz's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) following the2025 German elections, Warken was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on domestic policy, legal affairs, migration and integration, led byGünter Krings,Andrea Lindholz andDirk Wiese.[13]
During theEuropean refugee crisis in autumn 2015 and afterwards, Schuster became one of the most outspoken CDU internal critics of ChancellorAngela Merkel.[14][15] In June 2017, he voted against Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[16]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’leadership election, Schuster publicly endorsed in 2020Jens Spahn to succeedAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[17]
Schuster is married, has an adult daughter with his wife and lives in Weil am Rhein-Haltingen.
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