Steffen Bilger - Germany
Biography
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Steffen Bilger has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2009 for the constituency of Ludwigsburg.
Prior to that he worked as a lawyer for an energy services company. In 1996, already as a student he joined the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU) as well as the CDU.
In 1998 he started as chairman of the Baden-Württemberg Land branch of the Pupils' Union (schools section of the CDU/CSU) and from 1998 to 2000 he served as federal managing director of the Pupil Union Germany. In 2006 he was elected chairman of the Young Union BadenWürttemberg.
From federal election in 2009 until March 2018 he was a full member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, where he served as rapporteur on electric vehicles and alternative fuel vehicles within his parliamentary group. During the same time he was a full member of the Joint Committee, the Conciliation Committee of the German Bundestag and the Bundesrat as well as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Until January 2018 he was also chairman of the Young Group, the association of all Union members under the age of 35.
From 2014 to 2018 he was a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development and from 2017 to 2018 member of the Mediation Committee.
Since 2011 he is district chairman of the CDU North Württemberg, the largest of the four CDU districts in BadenWürttemberg. Since March 2018 he is Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the Fourth Merkel cabinet.
He is married and has two children.
