David McAllister
David McAllister | |
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McAllister in 2016 | |
| Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee | |
| Assumed office 1 February 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Elmar Brok |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Vice President of the European People's Party | |
| Assumed office 3 October 2015 | |
| President | Joseph Daul Donald Tusk |
| Preceded by | Michel Barnier |
| Minister-President of Lower Saxony | |
| In office 1 July 2010 – 19 February 2013 | |
| Deputy | Jörg Bode |
| Preceded by | Christian Wulff |
| Succeeded by | Stephan Weil |
| Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union of Lower Saxony | |
| In office 19 June 2008 – 12 November 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Wulff |
| Succeeded by | Bernd Althusmann |
| Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Landtag of Lower Saxony | |
| In office 4 February 2003 – 1 July 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Christian Wulff |
| Succeeded by | Björn Thümler |
| Member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony for Hadeln/Wesermünde (Hadeln; 2003–2008) (CDU List; 1998–2003) | |
| In office 30 March 1998 – 26 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Birgit Meyn-Horeis |
| Succeeded by | Aygül Özkan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | David James McAllister 12 January 1971 West Berlin, West Germany |
| Citizenship | Germany United Kingdom |
| Political party | German: Christian Democratic Union EU: European People's Party |
| Spouse | Dunja Kolleck |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Leibniz University Hannover |
| Website | mcallister |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Germany |
| Branch/service | Bundeswehr |
| Years of service | 1989–1991 |
| Unit | Army (Heer) / Panzerbataillon 74 |
David James McAllister (born 12 January 1971) is a German politician who has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), part of the European People's Party. He is the current vice president of the European People's Party and he is also vice chairman of the International Democrat Union. He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017.
On 1 July 2010 McAllister was elected Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony, succeeding Christian Wulff, who resigned following his election as President of Germany. Until his election defeat on 19 February 2013, he headed a coalition government with the liberal FDP, the Cabinet McAllister. In the 2014 European elections, McAllister was elected a Member of the European Parliament as the CDU's top candidate in Lower Saxony.
A lawyer by profession, he served as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxon Parliament from 2003 to 2010 and was elected chairman of the state party in 2008. In November 2016 he left the chairman post, and announced that he sees his political future in Europe. McAllister holds both German and British citizenship.
Following his election as Minister-President, he was described as a rising star in the CDU and, at the time, as a potential successor to Angela Merkel. He has more recently been mentioned as a possible future European Commissioner, however this became impossible when his countrywoman, Ursula von der Leyen, was elected President of the European Commission in 2019 and 2024.