Notable Facts
→Member of German Bundestag since 2009, directly elected 5 times
→Parliamentary State Secretary at Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation since 2025
→Former Commissioner for Digital Industry and Start-ups (2018-2021) overseeing €10 billion program
→Former Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy
→Entrepreneur who founded IT service company in 1996
→District Chairman of CDU Düsseldorf since 2014
→Member of CDU federal executive committee since 2022