President
Curriculum Vitae Matthias Wissmann
Born in 1949;
| 1968 - 1974 | Studies of law, economics and political science at the Universities of Tübingen and Bonn |
| 1974 / 1978 | First and second legal State Examinations |
| 1973 - 1983 | Chairman of the German Young Christian Democrats |
| 1976 - 1982 | President of the European Union Young Christian Democrats (EUYCD) |
| 1975 - 2007 | Member of the National Board of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) |
| 1976 | Matthias Wissmann becomes the youngest ever directly elected member of the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag). |
| 1983 - 1993 | Economic-policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group |
| October 1991 - May 2007 | Deputy Chairman of the CDU in Baden-Württemberg |
| January - May 1993 | Federal Minister for Research and Technology |
| May 1993 - October 1998 | Federal Minister of Transport |
| November 2002 - May 2007 | Chairman of the Committee of European Affairs of the German Parliament |
| since 1999 | Lawyer with the international law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP |
| since Juni 2007 | President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) |
Matthias Wissmann has written a number of books, e.g. Für eine humane Gesellschaft - zum Programmdenken der jungen Generation (For a humane society - on the program mentality of the young generation) (1976), Marktwirtschaft 2000 (Market Economy 2000) (1984), Deutsche Perspektiven (German Perspectives) (1990) and Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Social Market Economy) (1998). He is also active in a voluntary capacity on the board of "Philharmonia of the Nations" and in the "Schlossfestspiele Ludwigsburg" (Ludwigsburg Castle Festival).
