Alexander Dobrindt

Alexander Dobrindt MdB
Dobrindt in 2017
Chairman of the CSU Parliamentary Group and First Deputy Leader of the CDU/CSU Group in the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 October 2017
Leader	Volker Kauder Ralph Brinkhaus Friedrich Merz
Preceded by	Gerda Hasselfeldt
Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
In office 17 December 2013 – 24 October 2017
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Peter Ramsauer
Succeeded by	Christian Schmidt (acting)
General Secretary of the Christian Social Union
In office 9 February 2009 – 15 December 2013
Leader	Horst Seehofer
Preceded by	Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Succeeded by	Andreas Scheuer
Member of the Bundestag for Weilheim
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 October 2002
Preceded by	Michaela Geiger
Personal details
Born	(1970-06-07) 7 June 1970 (age 53) Peißenberg, Bavaria, Germany
Political party	CSU
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Website	alexander-dobrindt.de

Alexander Dobrindt (born 7 June 1970) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU). He is the Chairman of the CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag since 2017. Between 2013 and 2017, he served as Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Previously, he was the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria under the leadership of party chairman Horst Seehofer from 2009.