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Katherina Reiche (born 16 July 1973) is a German manager and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy in the of Chancellor since May 2025.

From 1998 to 2015, she was a member of the German Bundestag, serving from 2005 to 2009 as one of the deputy chairpersons of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. From 2009 to 2013, she was Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and from 2013 to 2015, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In September 2015, she resigned her seat in the Bundestag.


Education
After receiving her in 1992, she studied chemistry at the University of Potsdam, Clarkson University in New York and the University of Turku in Finland. In 1997, she received her diploma.


Political career

Early beginnings
In 1992, Reiche was one of the founding members of the Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (Association of Christian-Democrat Students, RCDS) in Potsdam and in the same year she joined the (JU). Since 1996 she has also been member of the CDU.


Member of the German Parliament, 1998–2015
In 2000 Reiche became a member of the federal executive of the CDU. From 2001 to 2015, she was also part of the party's executive board in the state of .

During the election campaign in 2002, Reiche was part of the CDU/CSU's competence team appointed by then chancellor candidate , as an expert on women, youth and family policies. This decision was criticized by conservative circles inside the two parties, because Reiche was an unmarried mother at that point in time.

From 2005 until 2009, Reiche served as deputy chairwoman of the CDU/CSU's parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman . In this capacity, she was in charge of overseeing the policy areas Education and Science as well as Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Reiche was part of the working group on the environment, agriculture and consumer protection, led by and . Koalitionsverhandlungen: Wen Union und FDP zum Feilschen schicken , 6 October 2009.


Career in government
In the government of Chancellor , Reiche first served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety under successive ministers Norbert Röttgen (2009-2012) and (2012-2013) from 2009 to 2013. Following the 2013 elections, she was named Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, this time under the leadership of minister Alexander Dobrindt.

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the diplomatic relations between German and , Reiche participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the two countries' governments in in May 2011.Günther Bannas (30 May 2011), Hoffnung auf „Eurofighter“-Geschäft: Erste deutsch-indische Regierungskonsultationen Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.


Career in the energy sector
In 2015, Reiche resigned from her government office and laid down her parliamentary mandate to become Chief Executive Officer of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU). In this capacity, she was unanimously elected President of the European Centre of Enterprises with Public Participation and of Enterprises of General Economic Interest (CEEP) in June 2016. Katherina Reiche Elected CEEP President German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), press release of 8 June 2016.

From 2018 until 2019, Reiche also served on the German government's so-called coal commission, which was tasked to develop a masterplan before the end of the year on how to phase-out coal and create a new economic perspective for the country's coal-mining regions.Andreas Franke (6 June 2018), Germany launches commission tasked to develop coal exit masterplan S&P Global Platts.

In late 2019, Reiche moved to a new position at German energy company E.ON,Christof Schürmann (11 September 2019), Katherina Reiche wird Chefin der neuen E.On-Netzgesellschaft . where she led its subsidiary Westenergie from 2020 to 2025.Jürgen Flauger (29 September 2020), Eons neue Netzwerkerin: Katherina Reiche geht mit Westenergie an den Start  .

Since June 2020, she has been the Chairwoman of the National Hydrogen Council of the Federal Government.


Other activities

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Non-profit organizations


Political views
In 2005, Reiche described the opponents of genetic engineering as "Bioterroristen" ("Bioterrorists"). She also criticized the two then government parties SPD and the Greens for trying to catch votes with this subject and stirring up the people's fears for the future.

In 2012, Reiche claimed same-sex marriage was a bigger threat to Germany than the . She was heavily criticized by groups for the remark.


Personal life
Reiche is in a relationship with Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.


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