1. Matthias Wissmann was born on 15 April 1949 and is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
10 Facts About Matthias Wissmann
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Matthias Wissmann served as the president of the German Automobile Industry Association from 2007 until 2018.
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Since 1999 Wissmann has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.
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Matthias Wissmann became a member of the political youth organisation Junge Union and in 1968 of the CDU.
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In 1976, Matthias Wissmann was elected to the German Bundestag for the Christlich-Demokratische Union.
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On 21 January 1993, Matthias Wissmann became Federal Minister of Research and Technology in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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Matthias Wissmann left the government after his party lost the federal elections on 27 September 1998.
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From 1998 to 2002 Matthias Wissmann was the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology.
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Matthias Wissmann laid down his parliamentary mandate by 31 May 2007 to become the president of the German Automobile Industry Association from 1 June 2007.
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In October 2016, Matthias Wissmann was unanimously elected as president of the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles for a two-year mandate, succeeding Yong-geun Kim.