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Patrick Schnieder

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Patrick Schnieder
Schnieder in 2025
Minister of Transport
In office
6 May 2025 – 29 July 2026
ChancellorFriedrich Merz
Preceded byVolker Wissing (as Minister of Digital and Transport)
Succeeded bySteffen Bilger
Member of the Bundestag
for Bitburg
Incumbent
Assumed office
27 September 2009
Personal details
Born (1968-05-01) 1 May 1968 (age 58)
Kyllburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
PartyChristian Democratic Union (since 1984)
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
OccupationPolitician
Military service
Allegiance Germany
Branch/service Bundeswehr
Years of service
1987–1988

Patrick Schnieder (born 1 May 1968) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister for Transport in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz from May 2025 to July 2026.[1] He has been a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2009.

Political career

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Career in state politics

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From 2011 until 2018, Schnieder served as Secretary General of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate, under the leadership of chairwoman Julia Klöckner. During his time in office, he managed the party's campaign for the 2016 state elections.

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present

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Schnieder first became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election, elected in the district of Bitburg.[2] In Parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Verification of Credentials and Immunities and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.[3][4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Schnieder has been chairing the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belgium and Luxembourg since 2014. He is also part of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2019, he has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Schnieder has been leading the group of CDU parliamentarians from Rhineland-Palatinate since the 2017 elections.[5] In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the elections, he was part of the working group on transport and infrastructure, led by Michael Kretschmer, Alexander Dobrindt and Sören Bartol.

Other activities

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Political positions

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In June 2017, Schnieder voted against Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.[7]

In 2019, Schnieder joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Angela Merkel and party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.[8]

Private life

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Schnieder is married. His brother is German politician Gordon Schnieder (CDU).

References

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  1. ↑ CDU-Chef Merz stellt Ministerinnen und Minister vor: Patrick Schnieder aus der Eifel soll Bundesverkehrsminister werden Südwestrundfunk, 5 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Patrick Schnieder". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag - Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "German Bundestag - Transport and Digital Infrastructure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. ↑ CDU-Bundestagsfraktion: Patrick Schnieder (CDU) als Chef der RLP-Landesgruppe wiedergewählt Südwestrundfunk, 28 September 2021.
  6. ↑ Supervisory Board KfW.
  7. ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  8. ↑ Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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