Ilse Aigner

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Ilse Aigner
President of the Landtag of Bavaria
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 November 2018
Preceded by	Barbara Stamm
Deputy Minister President of Bavaria
In office 10 October 2013 – 5 November 2018
Minister President	Horst Seehofer Herself (Acting) Markus Söder
Preceded by	Martin Zeil
Succeeded by	Hubert Aiwanger
Minister of Housing, Construction and Transport of Bavaria
In office 21 March 2018 – 5 November 2018
Minister President	Markus Söder
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Hans Reichhart
Minister President of Bavaria Acting
In office 14 March 2018 – 16 March 2018
Deputy	Herself
Preceded by	Horst Seehofer
Succeeded by	Markus Söder
Minister of the Economy, Energy, Technology and Media of Bavaria
In office 10 October 2013 – 21 March 2018
Minister President	Horst Seehofer Herself (Acting) Markus Söder
Preceded by	Martin Zeil
Succeeded by	Franz Josef Pschierer
Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
In office 31 October 2008 – 30 September 2013
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Horst Seehofer
Succeeded by	Hans-Peter Friedrich (Food and Agriculture) Heiko Maas (Consumer Protection)
Member of the Bundestag for Starnberg
In office 27 September 1998 – 22 September 2013
Preceded by	Wolfgang Gröbl
Succeeded by	Alexander Radwan
Member of the Landtag of Bavaria for Miesbach
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 September 2013
Preceded by	Alexander Radwan
In office 25 September 1994 – 13 September 1998
Constituency	List
Personal details
Born	(1964-12-07) 7 December 1964 (age 59) Feldkirchen-Westerham, West Germany
Political party	Christian Social Union

Ilse Aigner (born 7 December 1964) is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).

Aigner was born in Feldkirchen-Westerham, Bavaria, and entered Angela Merkel's grand coalition cabinet as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection on 31 October 2008. She succeeded Horst Seehofer, who had become Minister President of Bavaria. She left her position on 30 September 2013 after being elected as a member of the Bavarian parliament.

From 2013, she served as Deputy Minister-President of Bavaria. In addition, she served as State Minister of Economic Affairs; and Media, Energy and Technology (2013–2018) and State Minister of Construction and Transport (2018). After Horst Seehofer resigned as Minister President in order to become Federal Minister of the Interior on 14 March 2018, Aigner became acting Minister President until the election of Markus Söder as Minister President. After the 2018 Bavarian State elections, she was elected as President of the Bavarian Landtag,^[1] succeeding longterm president Barbara Stamm who had lost her seat in the election.^[2]