Günther H. Oettinger
Günther H. Oettinger was born on October 15, 1953 in Stuttgart and grew up in Ditzingen, where he attended elementary school. He attended high school in Korntal and graduated from high school, then studied law and economics at the University of Tübingen. After the first state law examination, he worked as a research assistant at a law professorship and passed the second state law examination at the beginning of 1982.
The CDU politician was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from April 1984 to February 2010 and chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group from January 1991 to April 2005. From April 2005 to February 2010 he held the office of Prime Minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
He was a member of the European Commission from February 2010 to the end of November 2019, initially as Commissioner for Energy until 2014, then as Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society until 2016, and most recently as Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources from 2017 to 2019.
Today Günther H. Oettinger is the managing director of a management consulting company based in Hamburg and a member of various supervisory boards and advisory boards. He is the honorary president of United Europe e. V. and the EBS University of Economics and Law in Wiesbaden and Oestrich-Winkel.
