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Michael Stübgen
Michael Stübgen
Deputy Minister-President of Brandenburg
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 November 2019
Prime Minister	Dietmar Woidke
Preceded by	Christian Görke
Minister for the Interior and Communal Affairs of Brandenburg
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 20 November 2019
Prime Minister	Dietmar Woidke
Preceded by	Karl-Heinz Schröter
Parliamentary State Secretary of Food and Agriculture
	In office; 14 March 2018 – 20 November 2019
Minister	Julia Klöckner
Preceded by	Peter Bleser ; Maria Flachsbarth
Succeeded by	Uwe Feiler
Member of the Bundestag ; for Brandenburg
	In office; 20 December 1990 – 2 December 2019
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Saskia Ludwig
Constituency	Bad Liebenwerda – Finsterwalde – Herzberg – Lübben – Luckau (1990–1994); CDU List (1994–2009); Elbe-Elster – Oberspreewald-Lausitz II (2009–2019);
Personal details
Born	17 October 1959 (age 65); Lauchhammer, East Germany
Political party	CDU

Michael Stübgen (born 17 October 1959) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke since 2019. He previously served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg from 1990 till 2019.^[1]

Political career

Member of the German Parliament, 1990–2019

Stübgen joined the CDU in 1990.

Stübgen was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2019, where he was deputy chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs from 1994 to 1998. He was Chairman of the Brandenburg regional group in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1998. From 2005 to 2018, Stübgen was also the European policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairman of the parliamentary group working group on European Union affairs. From October 2011 to March 2018, Stübgen was also a deputy member of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the FDP following the 2009 federal elections, Stübgen was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense, Europe and development policy, led by Franz Josef Jung and Werner Hoyer.^[2]

From 2018 to 2019, Stübgen served as Parliamentary State Secretary under minister Julia Klöckner at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

Career in state government

Since 2019, Stübgen has been serving as chairman of the CDU in Brandenburg. Following the 2019 state elections, he was appointed State Minister of the Interior and for Local Affairs in Brandenburg on November 20, 2019.

In December 2022, Stübgen announced his intention to resign as chairman of the CDU in Brandenburg.^[3]