Christian Schmidt
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
High Representative since August 1, 2021
Federal Minister (former)
Member of the German Bundestag since 1990
Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and rapporteur for the Western Balkan
States
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture from 17 February 2014 to 14 March 2018
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
from 2013 to 2014
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defense from 2005 to 2013
Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Defense 2002-2005
Chairman of the Parliamentary Working Group for Foreign Policy, Defense and European Affairs for
the CSU Parliamentary Group 1991- 2002
Representing CSU Parliamentary Group in the Western Balkans advisory circle of Chancellor Helmut
Kohl from 1992 to 1998
President of the German Atlantic Association since 2006
Vice-Chair of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation since 2018
Treasurer and member of the Presidency of the European People’s Party
Vice-Chair of the CSU from 2011 to 2017
Born in 1957 in Obernzenn (Franconia); married, father of two children
Lawyer by profession; University of Erlangen and University of Lausanne