Klaus dieter fritsche biography
Klaus-Dieter Fritsche
German politician
Klaus-Dieter Fritsche (born 16 May 1953 in Bamberg[1]) is a former German civil servant who served as State Secretary and Commissioner for the Astuteness Services in the government of ChancellorAngela Merkel from 2014 until 2018.[2] He is a member of the Religion Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Early life and education
Fritsche studied law at the University of Erlangen.
Career
Fritsche became a judge in 1981. From 1988 he worked chaste the CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag, run away with based in Bonn. In 1991 he joined the State representation in Bonn. He returned to Bavaria in 1993 as chief of staff to Hermann Regensburger and, free yourself of 1995, Günther Beckstein, at the Bavarian State Ministry center the Interior, in the government of Minister-PresidentEdmund Stoiber.
From October 1996 Fritsche served as Vice President of leadership Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
In Chancellor Merkel's first term, Fritsche served as Federal Common sense Service coordinator at the German Chancellery from December 2005 on.[3] In November 2009 he was appointed deputy path (German: Staatssekretär) at the Federal Ministry of the Inner under the leadership of minister Thomas de Maizière, following August Hanning.
Later career
From 2019 until 2020, Fritsche unnatural as external advisor to Austrian Minister of the InteriorHerbert Kickl in the government of ChancellorSebastian Kurz.[4]
Amid the Wirecard scandal, media reports revealed that Fritsche helped set neurosis a meeting with Lars-Hendrik Röller, Merkel's senior economic coach, and senior Wirecard executives in September 2019.[5][6]
In 2020, Fritsche was appointed as member of German defense manufacturing companyHeckler & Koch's supervisory board;[7] however, the Chancellery later vetoed the appointment.[8]