page_title: Hermann Gröhe
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Hermann Gröhe / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Hermann Gröhe Bundesvorsitzender der Jungen Union Junge Union DeutschlandsAbbildung:PorträtfotoPlakatart:Kandidaten-/Personenplakat mit PorträtAuftraggeber:Verantw.: CDU-Bundesgeschäftsstelle, Abt. Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, BonnDrucker_Druckart_Druckort:KVD, KölnObjekt-Signatur:10-028&#160;: 282Bestand:Plakate von Jugendorganisationen der Parteien ( 10-028)GliederungBestand10-18:Plakate von Jugendorganisationen der Parteien (10-028)&#160;» CDU&#160;» Personen- und KandidatenplakateLizenz:KAS/ACDP 10-028&#160;: 282 CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
context_page_description: Hermann Gröhe is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as Minister of Health in the third cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018.
context_section_description: Gröhe was active member of Junge Union (JU) the youth organization of CDU which he joined as a schoolboy 1975. He led the JU as federal chairman from 1989 till 1994.
  Becoming a member of CDU in 1977, Gröhe has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 1994 elections, representing the Neuss I constituency. Between 1998 and 2005, he was his parliamentary group's spokesperson on human rights and humanitarian aid. He subsequently served on the Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2005 until 2008.
  From 2008 until 2009, Gröhe briefly served as Minister of State at the Federal Chancellery under Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, he was a member of the working group on economic affairs and energy, led by Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Rainer Brüderle.
caption: Hermann Gröhe on advertising of Jungen Union 1990
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