Eckart von Klaeden
1985 Abitur at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Hanover. Studied law in Würzburg and Göttingen. 1985 to 1987 military service, retired corvette captain.
1993 to 1994 press spokesman of the CDU Lower Saxony, attorney since November 1996.
Honorary member of the board of Atlantik-Brücke e. V. and of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parlamentsfragen e. V.; honorary member of the executive committee of the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft e. V. and of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag; honorary chairman of the Stiftung zum Erhalt und zur Pflege des Weltkulturerbes Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim; honorary member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Member of the CDU and the Junge Union since 1983; member of the federal executive committee of the Junge Union from 1987 to 1992, state chairman of the Junge Union of Lower Saxony from 1992 to 1995, chairman of the Hildesheim CDU district association since 1995, member of the federal executive committee of the CDU of Germany since 2004.
Member of the Bundestag since 1994; foreign policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
1993 to 1994 press spokesman of the CDU Lower Saxony, attorney since November 1996.
Honorary member of the board of Atlantik-Brücke e. V. and of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parlamentsfragen e. V.; honorary member of the executive committee of the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft e. V. and of the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag; honorary chairman of the Stiftung zum Erhalt und zur Pflege des Weltkulturerbes Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim; honorary member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Member of the CDU and the Junge Union since 1983; member of the federal executive committee of the Junge Union from 1987 to 1992, state chairman of the Junge Union of Lower Saxony from 1992 to 1995, chairman of the Hildesheim CDU district association since 1995, member of the federal executive committee of the CDU of Germany since 2004.
Member of the Bundestag since 1994; foreign policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.