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Alois Rainer
Alois Rainer in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1965-01-07) 7 January 1965 (age 59)
Straubing, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCSU

Alois Georg Josef Rainer (born 7 January 1965) is a German butcher and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.

Political career

Born in Straubing, Rainer first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[1] In parliament, he served on the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee from 2013 to 2019; in this capacity, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2019 to 2021 he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, where he is his parliamentary group’s spokesperson.[2]

Since the 2021 elections, Rainer has been serving as chair of the Finance Committee.[3]

Personal life

Rainer is the younger brother of fellow politician Gerda Hasselfeldt.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Alois Rainer". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  2. ^ "German Bundestag - Transport and Digital Infrastructure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  3. ^ Neuaufstellung der Union: Spahn ist jetzt Stellvertreter des Fraktionsvorsitzenden Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 December 2021.
  4. ^ Robert Roßmann (August 20, 2013), Eine Familie in der Politik: Die Hasselfeldts Süddeutsche Zeitung.