Alexander Dobrindt
Alexander Dobrindt | |
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Dobrindt in 2025 | |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 6 May 2025 | |
| Chancellor | Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Nancy Faeser (as Minister of the Interior and Community) |
| Chairman of the CSU Group in the Bundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 5 May 2025 | |
| Leader | Volker Kauder Ralph Brinkhaus Friedrich Merz |
| Preceded by | Gerda Hasselfeldt |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Hoffmann |
| Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure | |
| In office 17 December 2013 – 24 October 2017 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Peter Ramsauer |
| Succeeded by | Christian Schmidt (acting) |
| General Secretary of the Christian Social Union | |
| In office 9 February 2009 – 15 December 2013 | |
| Leader | Horst Seehofer |
| Preceded by | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Scheuer |
| Member of the Bundestag for Weilheim | |
| Assumed office 17 October 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Michaela Geiger |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 June 1970 Peißenberg, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Political party | CSU (since 1990) |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Website | alexander-dobrindt.de |
Alexander Dobrindt (German pronunciation: [alɛkˈsandɐ ˈdoːbʁɪnt]; born 7 June 1970) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as the Federal Minister of the Interior in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025.
From 2017 to 2025, Dobrindt served as the chairman of the CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. Between 2013 and 2017, he served as Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Previously, he was the secretary general of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria under the leadership of party chairman Horst Seehofer from 2009.