Alois Rainer has assumed his office as new Federal Minister
Alois Rainer was appointed the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin on the 6 May 2025. After his appointment, the new Federal Minister was sworn in.
In the evening, there was a festive ceremony at the Ministry, where Alois Rainer’s predecessor Cem Özdemir handed over office to him. Federal Minister Rainer then appointed the Parliamentary State Secretaries Silvia Breher and Martina Englhardt-Kopf.
Biographic details of the new ministry leadership:
- Alois Rainer comes from Straubing in Lower Bavaria. He was mayor of his home municipality of Haibach from 1996 until 2014. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013, was inter alia a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Budgetary Committee and was most recently chair of the Finance Committee. He was directly elected for the constituency of Straubing at the last federal election. He is a trained butcher, is married, Catholic, and has two sons.
- Silvia Breher comes from the Oldenburg Münsterland region in Lower Saxony. She is a directly elected Member of the German Bundestag and has represented the constituency of Cloppenburg-Vechta since 2017. She was a member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She is a lawyer and has three children.
- Martina Englhardt-Kopf comes from Schwandorf in Bavaria. She is a directly elected Member of the German Bundestag, and has represented the district of Cloppenburg-Vechta since 2021. She was a member of the Committee on Transport and a substitute member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. She is a former teacher, is married, Catholic and has two children. She and her family work part-time as farmers, working a farm she took over from her parents.
