Ole Schröder | |
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| Parliamentary State Secretary for the Interior | |
| In office 28 October 2009 – 14 March 2018 | |
| Minister | Hans-Peter Friedrich Thomas de Maizière |
| Preceded by | Peter Altmaier |
| Succeeded by | Stephan Mayer |
| Member of theBundestag forPinneberg | |
| In office 18 September 2005 – 24 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Ernst Dieter Rossmann |
| Succeeded by | Michael von Abercron |
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| Born | (1971-08-27)27 August 1971 (age 54) |
| Political party | CDU |
| Spouse | Kristina Schröder |
| Children | 2 |
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| Occupation | Politician |
Ole Schröder (born 27 August 1971) is a German politician and member of theCDU. From 2009 until 2018, he served as Parliamentary State Secretary in theGerman Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Between 2001 and 2009, Schröder worked as a lawyer with law firmWhite & Case in Hamburg.
Schröder first became a member of theBundestag following the2002 federal elections. Between 2002 and 2009, he served as a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure. A member of the Budget Committee between 2005 and 2009, he served as theCDU/CSU parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budgets of theFederal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and theFederal Ministry of Justice (BMJ). During that time, he was also the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of theSouthern Caucasus (Armenia,Azerbaijan,Georgia). From 2007, Schröder led the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians fromSchleswig-Holstein.
From 2009, Schröder served as Parliamentary State Secretary in theGerman Federal Ministry of the Interior under ministersThomas de Maizière (2009-2011, 2013–2018) andHans-Peter Friedrich (2011–2013) in thesecond andthird cabinets ofChancellorAngela Merkel. In this capacity, he is in charge of information technology and sport.[1]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democrats (SPD) following the2013 federal elections, Schröder was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byHans-Peter Friedrich andThomas Oppermann.
Following a similar decision of his wife, Schröder announced in June 2016 that he would not stand in the2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[2] He has been working as a consultant forKPMG since 2018. In 2019, he was appointed to the board ofSchufa.[3]
In June 2017, Schröder voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[5]
Schröder is married toKristina Schröder, a fellow member of the Bundestag and formerFederal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[6] Their first child was born in July 2011.[7]
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