Andreas Obersteller

Andreas Obersteller (born September 3, 1953 ) is a German ministerial official. He has been President of the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control since 2017 . He retired at the beginning of June 2019.

Life and work

After graduation upper plate began in 1974 to study economics at the University of Augsburg , which he in 1978 as a graduate economist ended. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Economics at the University of Augsburg and from 1981 at the Rheinisch-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research in Essen . In 1986 he switched to the policy department of the Ministry of Economics, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From 1987 to 1994 Obersteller worked for the North Rhine-Westphalian SPD parliamentary group as a consultant for economic and energy policy and as the office manager of the parliamentary group leader Friedhelm Farthmann . In 1994 he took over the management of the ministerial office of the Minister for Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture Klaus Matthiesen (SPD).

In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1995 , the SPD lost its absolute majority and formed a coalition with Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Bärbel Höhn took over the management of the Ministry of the Environment . Klaus Matthiesen resigned from office as a minister and was elected chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. Obersteller therefore also left the Ministry of the Environment and became Matthiesen's office manager.

After the death of Klaus Matthiesen in December 1998, Obersteller took over the management of the Energy Supply, Coal and Mining Group in the Ministry of Economics and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Energy and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1999. In 2003 he became head of the sustainable energy supply, energy efficiency, renewable energies, coal, mining, mineral raw materials subdivision in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (from 2005: Economics and Technology). In 2008 he took over the management of the sub-department for EU member states and other European countries, EU internal market.

In February 2017, Federal Minister of Economics Brigitte Zypries (SPD) appointed him President of the Federal Office for Economics and Export Control.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control