Claude Wiseler

{{short description|President of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg since 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Claude Wiseler

| image = Claude Wiseler 2024-01 (101) (cropped).jpg

| caption = Wiseler in 2024

| office = 40th President of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start = 21 November 2023

| term_end =

| vicepresident = Mars Di Bartolomeo
Fernand Etgen
Michel Wolter

| predecessor = Fernand Etgen

| successor =

| office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start2 = 5 December 2013

| term_end2 =

| constituency2 = Centre

| term_start3 = 13 July 1999

| term_end3 = 30 July 2004

| constituency3 = Centre

| office4 = 37th President of the Christian Social People's Party

| term_start4 = 24 April 2021

| term_end4 = 27 November 2023

| predecessor4 = Frank Engel

| successor4 = Elisabeth Margue

| office5 = Minister of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure

| term_start5 = 23 July 2009

| term_end5 = 4 December 2013

| primeminister5 = Jean-Claude Juncker

| predecessor5 = Fernand Boden (Rural development)

| successor5 = François Bausch

| office6 = Minister of Civil Service, Administrative Reform and Public Works

| term_start6 = 31 July 2004

| term_end6 = 23 July 2009

| primeminister6 = Jean-Claude Juncker

| predecessor6 = Lydie Polfer (Public service and Administrative reform)
Erna Hennicot-Schoepges (Public works)

| successor6 = François Biltgen

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|01|30|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

| nationality = Luxembourger

| profession = {{hlist|Professor|Politician}}

| spouse = Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima

| party = Christian Social People's Party

| alma_mater = Athénée de Luxembourg
Sorbonne Nouvelle University

| children = 3

| signature = Sig Claude Wiseler.jpg

}}

Claude Wiseler (born 30 January 1960) is a Luxembourgish politician, serving as the current and 40th President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies since 21 November 2023 and who served as President of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) from 2021 to 2023.{{Cite web|date=2021-04-24|title=Claude Wiseler elected party president with overwhelming majority|url=https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1711210.html|access-date=23 May 2023|website=RTL today|language=en}}

He has been a CSV member since 1983,{{cite web| title=Claude Wiseler| url=https://www.chd.lu/en/deputy/151| publisher=Chamber of Deputies| accessdate=2023-05-23| language=fr}} and served in the government led by Jean-Claude Juncker until 2013.

He attended the Athénée de Luxembourg, before studying literature in Paris. He returned to the Athénée to teach language in 1983, which he continued to do until 1988. From 1987 to 1999, he served as an adviser to the government on educational issues. He became General Secretary of the Christian Social People's Party in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://csv.lu/lb/pages/personnalites.html |title=Perséinlechkeeten aus der CSV |accessdate=2009-04-11 |publisher=Christian Social People's Party |language=lb |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126101655/http://csv.lu/lb/pages/personnalites.html |archivedate=2009-01-26 }}

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1999 election, finishing sixth amongst CSV candidates in the Centre constituency, where six CSV deputies were elected.{{cite web | last= | first= | title=1999: Circonscription Centre | url=http://www.elections.public.lu/fr/elections-legislatives/1999/resultats/circonscriptions/centre/index.html | date=7 April 2009 | publisher=Service Information et Presse | accessdate=2009-04-10 |language=fr}} In the communal elections of October 1999, Wiseler was elected to Luxembourg City's communal council in third-place amongst CSV candidates (six were elected);{{cite web | last= | first= | title=Résultants 1999 | url=http://www.vdl.lu/Mairie+et+services+centraux/Politique+communale/Elections+communales/R%C3%A9sultats+1999.html | date= | publisher=Ville de Luxembourg | accessdate=2009-04-12 |language=fr}} he was appointed as an échevin in the DP-CSV administration, and served in this position from 1 January 2000 until 30 July 2004.

He was comfortably re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2004 election, placing second amongst CSV candidates in a CSV landslide victory,{{cite web | last= | first= | title=2004: Circonscription Centre | url=http://www.elections.public.lu/fr/elections-legislatives/2004/resultats/circonscriptions/centre/index.html | date=7 April 2009 | publisher=Service Information et Presse | accessdate=2009-04-10 |language=fr}} and appointed to the new cabinet to hold the positions of Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform and Minister for Public Works. After the 2009 election, Wiseler was reappointed to the government in the enlarged role of Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, which includes his former portfolio of Public Works.

Wiseler was elected President of the CSV party in 2021, receiving 400 votes from 475 members of the party's national congress.

He is married to fellow CSV politician and Member of the European Parliament Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima.