Martin Jäger (diplomat)

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Martin Jäger (born September 9, 1964 in Ulm ) is a German political official and former diplomat . He has been State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation since March 2018 . From October 2016 to March 2018 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Migration in Baden-Württemberg . From October 2014 to October 2016 he was press spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Finance . Before that he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Afghanistan . Before that, he worked at Daimler AG as the chief lobbyist.

Life

Martin Jäger completed military service from 1984 to 1986 after completing his general university entrance qualification . He learned the profession of photographer and worked as a freelance journalist from 1986 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1994 he studied ethnology , political science and philosophy in Munich .

Jäger is married to the journalist and writer Helena Reich (bourgeois Nicole Jäger-Koydl, * 1965 in Czechoslovakia ) and has two children.

Jäger was chairman of the Committee on International Trade and World Economic Affairs of the Association of the Automotive Industry . He is also a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Foreign Policy , the EU Japan Business Round Table and the working group “Adaptation Strategies in Climate Policy” at acatech .

He has been a member of the CDU since 1994 .

career

Jäger completed his preparatory service for the higher foreign service from 1994 to 1996 . From 1996 to 1998 he was employed in the Foreign Office and from 1998 to 2002 in the Federal Chancellery . From 2002 to 2004 Jäger was head of the cultural department of the German embassy in Prague . From 2004 to 2005 he was responsible for press work for the head of the Federal Chancellery, Frank-Walter Steinmeier . From 2005 to 2008 he also served as spokesman for him during his time as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs . In 2008, Jäger switched to industry and until 2013 was the head of the Global External Affairs and Public Policy department as chief lobbyist of the Daimler car company .

In April 2013, the Federal Cabinet approved Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's proposal to make Jäger German ambassador to Afghanistan. He took up this position as the successor to Rüdiger König in September 2013. His successor at Daimler AG was Eckart von Klaeden (CDU) on November 1, 2013 .

Jäger has been press spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Finance since October 2014 . In October 2016, he moved to the Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Migration in Baden-Württemberg as State Secretary . Der Spiegel named him as a member of an influential male clique around Wolfgang Schäuble .

In March 2018 it became known that Jäger will become a permanent state secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation under Federal Minister Gerd Müller (CSU).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Jäger becomes spokesman for the Federal Minister of Finance. Press release from the Federal Ministry of Finance, February 14, 2014
  2. ↑ Jürgen Brand: Dream job: Writer. stuttgarter-nachrichten.de, March 22, 2012
  3. ^ Helena Reich on the website of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Christian Reiermann: Schäuble's chief planner moves into the CDU crisis area . Spiegel Online, September 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ kgp: Change to Daimler: SPD demands dismissal of State Minister Klaeden. spiegel.de, May 29, 2013
  6. ^ Stephan-Andreas Casdorff: Diplomat Martin Jäger is to become the new Schäuble spokesman. tagesspiegel.de, February 5, 2014
  7. ↑ Pressessprecher.com: Schäuble spokesman Jäger leaves BMF pressessprecher.com, September 16, 2016
  8. ↑ The Gang of Four. Spiegel No. 50 of December 10, 2016, p. 41 f.
  9. ↑ Rüdiger Soldt: Strobl loses most important employee , faz.net , March 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm