Thomas Rachel

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Thomas Rachel (born May 17, 1962 in Düren ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

He has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Education and Research since 2005 .

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1982 at the Städtisches Gymnasium am Wirteltor in Düren , Rachel completed a degree in political science , history and constitutional law at the University of Bonn , which he completed in 1992 as a Magister Artium . During his studies he worked from 1986 to 1987 as an assistant to Matthias Wissmann, member of the Bundestag .

After completing his studies, he took over the management of the Bonn office of the steel trade association in 1992 . From 1994 to 2004 he was deputy head of the Department of Fundamental Issues and Foreign Trade at the German Steel Federation in Düsseldorf . In November 2015 Rachel was elected as a member of the EKD Council.

Thomas Rachel is married and has one daughter.

Political party

Rachel was deputy chairman of the CDU district association Düren-Jülich from 1989 to 2012 and since 1991 a member of the CDU state executive in North Rhine-Westphalia . Since March 16, 2012 he has been the district chairman of the CDU district association Düren-Jülich .

He has been a member of the federal executive committee of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU since 1995 and has been the federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU / CSU since 2003 .

From 1995 to 2001 Rachel was also a member of the federal board of the CDU / CSU- Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsvereinigung . Since November 2010 he has been an assessor in the North Rhine-Westphalia CDU.

MP

Rachel has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1994 and was chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Committee on Education and Research from 1998 to 2005 .

From 1999 to 2002 he was deputy chairman of the Enquête Commission on Globalization of the World Economy and from 2003 to 2005 spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Enquête Commission on Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine .

Thomas Rachel entered the Bundestag in 1998 and 2002 via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia and otherwise always as a directly elected member of the Düren constituency . In the 2009 Bundestag election , he received 46.37% of the first votes , in the 2013 Bundestag election a total of 50.33% of the votes and in the 2017 Bundestag election only 41.9% of the votes.

Public offices

On November 22, 2005 Rachel was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Education and Research in the federal government led by Chancellor Angela Merkel . He was a member of the Merkel I , Merkel II and Merkel III cabinets and also holds this position in the Merkel IV cabinet .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Rachel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. EKD.de: Evangelical Church has a new council
  2. http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/kreis-dueren/kreis-dueren-mit-vier-abiminalen-nach-berlin-1.1723375