Reinhard Brandl | |
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 Dr. Brandl during his 2025 Campaign | |
| Member of theBundestag forIngolstadt | |
| Assumed office 27 October 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Horst Seehofer(2008) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1977-08-11)11 August 1977 (age 48) |
| Nationality | German |
| Party |  German:Christian Social Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Technische Universität München |
Reinhard Brandl (born on 1 August 1977 inIngolstadt) is a German politician from theChristian Social Union (CSU). He has been a Member of theGerman Bundestag since 2009,[1] and has served as Parliamentary Secretary of the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians since May 2025.
Brandl grew up in the small municipality of Eitensheim in Altmühltal Nature Park. After obtaining hisAbitur (higher-education entrance qualification) at Willibald-GymnasiumEichstätt in 1996, he completed compulsory military service with the Air Force in Manching-Oberstimm. He then studied at the University ofKarlsruhe, graduating as an industrial engineer in 2003.
He also holds a qualification as an Ingénieur en génie industriel from the French Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble. He worked forBMW in Munich from 2003 to 2006.
He obtained his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was a member of the management board of the family-owned business Erhard Brandl Dipl-Ing in Eitensheim.
In 2009, he worked as a business consultant for theBoston Consulting Group in Munich until his election to the Bundestag.[2]
Brandl is Catholic, married, and has two sons.
He chairs CSUnet,[3] the party’s working group on internet policy, and is a member of the CSU party executive.
In the 2009 Bundestag election, Brandl won the Ingolstadt constituency seat with 57.2 per cent of the first votes.
The seat had previously been held from 1980 to 2008 byHorst Seehofer, former CSU chairman and Bavarian Minister-President. Brandl was re-elected with 61.5 per cent of the first votes in the 2013 Bundestag election, 49.5 per cent in 2017, and almost 45 per cent of the first votes in the 2021 election.
In the 2025 Bundestag election, Brandl successfully defended his seat, winning 47.1 per cent of the first votes in the Ingolstadt constituency.[4] That was the third-best result in terms of first votes in Bavaria, and the best in Upper Bavaria. This meant that he was re-elected to the German Bundestag in the 21st electoral term.
On 5 May 2025, the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians elected him as its new Parliamentary Secretary. He took over fromAlexander Hoffmann, the newly elected chairman of the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians. Brandl is also a member of the Bundestag’s Council of Elders and the Joint Committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
He chairs the supervisory board of AININ, an alliance of several universities and groups for the purpose of researching cutting-edge technologies. Brandl has been a member of the board of the Association for Security Policy (GSP) since 2014 and Vice-President of the GSP since 2019; he has been a member of the Association of the German Army since at least 2018.
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