Katherina Reiche, a university-trained chemist, has been Managing Director of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU) since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, she was parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. She was subsequently parliamentary state secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Katherina Reiche is Honorary President of the Federal Association of Public Services (bvöd) and of the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP). She has been a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development since November 2016.
Curriculum Vitae
- Since 2016
- Honorary President of the European Centre of Employers and Enterprises providing Public Services (CEEP)
- Since 2015
- Honorary President of the Federal Association of Public Services (bvöd)
- Since 2015
- Managing Director and Managing Member of the Executive Committee of the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU)
- 2013 – 2015
- Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
- 1998 – 2015
- Member of the German Bundestag
- 2009 – 2013
- Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- 2005 – 2009
- Deputy Chair of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, responsible for education and research policy and for the areas environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety
- 2002
- Member of the competence team of chancellor candidate Dr. Edmund Stoiber, responsible for family policy; in the 15th electoral period, chair of the working group on education and research in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
- 1997 – 1998
- Research assistant at the University of Potsdam
- 1997
- Further study periods at Turku University in Finland
- 1995 – 1996
- Research assistant at the Institute of Chemistry and Biology at Clarkson University, New York
- 1992 – 1997
- Studied Chemistry at the University of Potsdam, obtained a university degree in Chemistry
- 1992
- Obtained ‘Abitur’ (advanced school-leaving certificate) at Luckenwalde Gymasium (grammar school)
- 16 July 1973
- Born in Luckenwalde, Brandenburg
Political career
- 2000 – 2010 and since 2014
- Member of the CDU Federal Executive Committee
- Since 2001
- Member of the State Executive Committee of the CDU Brandenburg
- 2008 – 2015
- District Chair of the CDU Potsdam
Founding member of the Christian Democratic Student Group (RCDS) at the University of Potsdam
Voluntary work
Member of the non-profit German-US association Atlantik?Brücke
Member of Friends of the Catholic Marian School, Potsdam
Member of the society to support the reconstruction of the Garrison Church in Potsdam
Member of the Board of Trustees of Deutsches Museum, Munich
Deputy Chair of the Public Affairs advisory board at the Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
