Minister of Economics, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour Reinhard Meyer

Personal details

05.09.1959: Born in Bonn

1966-1979: Attended school in Bonn and Bremen: qualification for university entrance

1979-1981: Enlisted soldier in the Federal Armed Forces

1982-1989: Degree in Political Science with History and Economics as supplementary subjects at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the University of Hamburg, qualification: graduate political scientist

1989-1990: Research associate at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Hamburg

1990-1991: Postgraduate study of public administration at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, qualification: Magister rer. publ.

1991-1994: Scientific consultant with the SPD parliamentary group in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s State Parliament

1994-1996: Head of the Minister’s office in the Ministry for Economics and European Union Affairs Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

1996-1997: Consultant for the affairs of the Bundesrat and finance ministers‘ conference affairs in the Ministry of Finance Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

1997-1998: Office chief of the representation of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the federation

1998-2001: Head of department for co-ordination of State and federal policy in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Chancellery

04/2001-12/2001: Head of the department for State and Federal Affairs, North German Collaboration and also Economic, Financial and Tax Policy as a member of the planning staff of the Senats Chancellery of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

12/2001-12/2005: Secretary of State in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Ministry of Economics

01/2006-06/2012: Head of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s State Chancellery

06/2012-06/2017: Minister of Economics, Labour, Transport and Technology of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein

01/2018-05/2019: Head of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s State Chancellery

05/2019-10/2021: Finance Minister of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

since 11/2021: Minister of Economics, Infrastructure, Tourism and Labour of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

since 11/2007: President of the German Board of Tourism (honorary post)