Peer Steinbrück, Berlin
(As of: January 21, 2010)
Member of the German Parliament
Federal Minister (retd.)
Personal data
Year of birth:
1947
Place of birth:
Hamburg
Education
1968
High school diploma, then two years military service in the German Army
1970 - 1974
Studied economics and social science at the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel
Graduated as a "Diplom Volkswirt"
Graduated as a "Diplom Volkswirt"
Career
1974 - 1976
Work and services contract with the Federal Ministry of Building
1976 - 1981
Various positions in federal ministries, as private secretary and at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn
1981
Position in the Permanent Representative Office of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin, Economics department
1981 - 1985
Private Secretary to the Federal Minister for Research and Technology, and senior staff member of the SPD parliamentary group
1985 - 1986
Officer for economic issues in environmental protection in the Planning Group of the Ministry of the Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
1986 - 1990
Head of the office of the Prime Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
1990 - 1992
State Secretary in the Ministry for Nature, the Environment and Regional Development of the state of Schleswig-Holstein
1992 - 1998
First State Secretary, then Minister for Economics, Technology and Transport of the state of Schleswig-Holstein
1998 - 2000
Minister of Economics and SMEs, Technology and Transport of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2000 - 2002
Finance Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2000 - 2005
Member of the State Assembly of North Rhine-Westphalia
2002 - 2005
Prime Minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2005 - 2009
Federal Finance Minister
Since 2009
Member of the German Parliament
Membership of statutory supervisory boards in Germany
- ThyssenKrupp AG (since 2010)
Membership of comparable control bodies
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