Hendrik Wüst
Hendrik Wüst | |
|---|---|
 Wüst in 2013 | |
| Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 27 October 2021 | |
| Deputy | Joachim Stamp |
| Preceded by | Armin Laschet |
| Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 23 October 2021 | |
| Deputy | Ina Scharrenbach Herbert Reul Sabine Verheyen Daniel Sieveke Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker |
| Preceded by | Armin Laschet |
| Minister for Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 30 June 2017 – 27 October 2021 | |
| Minister President | Armin Laschet |
| Preceded by | Michael Groscheck |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hendrik Josef Wüst 19 July 1975 Rhede, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Spouse | Katharina Starting (m. 2018) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Münster |
Hendrik Wüst (born 19 July 1975) is the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia. He is a member of the christian-democratic and liberal-conservative CDU. In October 2021 he succeeded Armin Laschet as state chairman of his party.
Career
Wüst was born in 1975 in the town of Rhede in North Rhine-Westphalia.[1] In 1995, having obtained his Abitur, he began reading law at the University of Münster, qualifying as a lawyer in 2003.[2] At the age of 15, Wüst co-founded the local branch of Junge Union, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in his hometown.[3] In 1994, he was elected to the city council of Rhede and, in 2004, to the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2006, he served as the general secretary of the CDU in the state.[2]
In 2010, Wüst resigned from the post of secretary general.[4] He took this step after it became known that the party had given preferential access to Jürgen Rüttgers, the then Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, in return for payments.[3] Wüst then worked in publishing and for a private broadcaster until 2017.[4] Since 2013, he has been the state chairman of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion, a business lobby within the CDU.[2] In 2017, he was appointed state Minister for Transport in the cabinet of Armin Laschet. On 5 October 2021, it was reported that Wüst would receive the endorsement of Laschet to succeed him as Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and state chairman of the CDU.[3] On 23 October, Wüst was elected to the state chairmanship of his party.[5]
On 27 October 2021, Wüst was elected Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia by the state parliament.[6]
Political positions
According to Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Wüst is part of the conservative wing of the CDU. In 2007, a group of conservative politicians, including Wüst and the future Minister President of Bavaria Markus Söder, published a white paper entitled Moderner bürgerlicher Konservatismus ('Modern civic conservatism'), which was described as a "token of insubordination" by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[4]
References
- ^ "Hendrick Wüst: Ihn wird Armin Laschet wohl als Nachfolger vorschlagen". Antenne Düsseldorf (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Minister Hendrik Wüst". Ministerium für Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Laschets politischer Erbe". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ a b c "Einer für alles: Laschet-Nachfolger Hendrik Wüst im Porträt". WDR (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "Parteitag: Wüst mit 98 Prozent zum CDU-Landesvorsitzenden gewähl". WDR (in German). Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- ^ "Hendrik Wüst zum neuen NRW-Ministerpräsidenten gewählt". WDR (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2021.
