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Christian Schmidt

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defence

Christian Schmidt was born in Obernzenn, district of Neustadt/ Aisch–Bad Windsheim on 26 August 1957. He and his wife Dr. Ria Schmidt have two children.On completion of his secondary education with the university entrance qualification he did basic military service with the 1st Mountain Division. Subsequently he studied law in Erlangen and Lausanne. Upon completion of his legal studies in 1985 with the Second State Examination in Law he worked as a lawyer predominantly in the fields of labour law and competition law.

Between 1984 and 1990, Christian Schmidt held the position of local and district councillor. In 1990 he was elected a member of the German Bundestag where he held the position of foreign and security affairs spokesman of the CSU group of parliamentarians from Bavaria and was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. From 1994 he was an alternate member of the Defence Committee. Since 1999 he has been a member of the advisory council of the German-Czech Discussion Forum and chairman of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group. From October 2002 to November 2005 Christian Schmidt was Defence Spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, a member of the Defence Committee, and an alternate member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Christian Schmidt, who is an expert on matters concerning the Bundeswehr, was appointed a Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defence in November 2005.

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