Reiner Haseloff

Reiner Haseloff joined the then bloc party CDU of the GDR in 1976. He has been a member of the state executive of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt since 1990 and was deputy district administrator of the Wittenberg district from 1990 to 1992.

From 2004 to 2012, Haseloff was deputy state chairman of the CDU. Since December 2008 he has been a member of the CDU federal executive committee.

From 2002 to 2006, Haseloff served as State Secretary at the State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour under minister Horst Rehberger in the first cabinet of Minister President Wolfgang Böhmer. In 2006, he succeeded Rehberger and became a member of Böhmer's second cabinet.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2009 federal elections, Haseloff was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on labour and social affairs, led by Ronald Pofalla and Dirk Niebel.

When Böhmer announced his resignation ahead of the 2011 state elections, Haseloff was the candidate of the CDU. He had already gained national attention by proposing that unemployed people who had no job prospects work for the public interest, a plan that since then has been adopted in a number of federal states.{{cite news|last=Lutz|first=Martin|author2=Uwe Müller |title="Es geht nicht um Schuhgrößen". Ein gewagter Schritt: Reiner Haseloff will in Sachsen-Anhalt Landesvater Böhmer nachfolgen|url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/politik/article12431024/Es-geht-nicht-um-Schuhgroessen.html|access-date=21 April 2011|newspaper=Die Welt|date=3 February 2011}}

From 2014 and 2016, Haseloff was one of the members of Germany's temporary National Commission on the Disposal of Radioactive Waste.[https://www.bundestag.de/blob/434430/bb37b21b8e1e7e049ace5db6b2f949b2/drs_268-data.pdf Abschlussbericht der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe]

During the European migrant crisis, in November 2015, Haseloff kept distance to Angela Merkel by proposing an "upper limit" (German: Obergrenze) of refugees as the CSU party did, for the state as well as on federal level.[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/fluechtlingskrise/reiner-haseloff-im-interview-zur-fluechtlingspolitik-13959380.html „Wir sollten die Grenze für Flüchtlingszahl beziffern“ ], Frankfurter Allgemeine, in German At the same time he didn't join a proposal of fellow CDU 2016 state election campaigners Julia Klöckner and Guido Wolf for flexible daily quotas for refugee inflows into Germany, which was a step beyond Merkel's "open-doors" policy but not as far as the CSU party, reportedly in deference to his SPD coalition partner in the state government. Haseloff said, the chancellor "elaborately fought for a European solution" in the refugee crisis, but this was "out of sight".[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/fluechtlingskrise-julia-kloeckner-wendet-sich-von-angela-merkel-ab-a-1078524.html Flüchtlingskrise: CDU-Wahlkämpfer wenden sich von Merkel ab], Der Spiegel, in German

In the 2016 state elections, Haseloff was able to keep power in Saxony-Anhalt, with his CDU taking approximately 29 percent of the voteJanosch Delcker (13 March 2016), [http://www.politico.eu/article/angela-merkels-conservatives-lose-two-major-regional-elections/ Angela Merkel’s conservatives lose two major regional elections] Politico Europe. and thereby remaining the largest party in the state parliament,Philip Oltermann (14 March 2016), [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/14/german-election-results-polarised-voters-choose-pro-refugee-stance Germany 'won't change policy' after gains for anti-refugee AfD party] The Guardian. but faced a strong AfD right wing opposition. Haseloff stated after the elections that "the actual rise, which came for the AfD in the polls has a city name: It's Cologne."{{cite web|url=http://presse.phoenix.de/news/pressemitteilungen/2016/03/20160313_Haseloff/20160313_Haselhoff.phtml|title=Haseloff (CDU): "als christlich-demokratische Union hier in Sachsen-Anhalt nichts falsch gemacht"|trans-title=Haseloff (CDU): "As a Christian Democratic Union here in Saxony-Anhalt done nothing wrong"|work=Phoenix|language=de|access-date=14 March 2016}} He explained that the rise of the votes for his party in the state came because "we at least did nothing wrong as a Christian Democratic Union here in Saxony-Anhalt." Following the elections, Saxony-Anhalt became the first of the German states to be governed by a triple coalition of CDU, SPD and the Green Party. On 25 April 2016, Haseloff was re-elected in parliament as minister president of the state during a second ballot, where he managed to gain one vote more than the coalition majority.[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/magdeburg-haseloff-erst-im-zweiten-anlauf-wiedergewaehlt-14199099.html Haseloff erst im zweiten Anlauf wiedergewählt], Frankfurter Allgemeine, in German

As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, Haseloff serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Within his party, Haseloff has been part of the CDU's national leadership team around successive chairwomen Angela Merkel (2008–2018) and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (2018–2021) since 2008. He served as a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017 and 2022.[https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/878348/b21e5621b2f3de04e328535bd589e151/mitglieder_bv_2022-data.pdf 17th Federal Convention, 13 February 2022, List of Members] Bundestag.

In the negotiations to form a so-called Grand Coalition under Chancellor Merkel following the 2013 federal elections, Haseloff was part of the CDU/CSU delegation's leadership team. In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Green Party following the 2017 national elections, Haseloff was part of the 19-member delegation of the CDU.

Since 2022, Haseloff has been chairing an internal CDU working group in charge of drafting recommendation on reforming Germany’s public broadcasting.Helmut Hartung (31 March 2023), [https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/cdu-aeussert-sich-zum-oeffentlich-rechtlichen-rundfunk-18791079.html Haseloff ist Taktgeber: ARD setzt auf Finanztrick] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

• Deutsches Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees[http://www.deutsches-museum.de/wir-ueber-uns/kuratorium/ Board of Trustees] Deutsches Museum.
• Central Committee of German Catholics, Member[http://www.zdk.de/organisation/mitglieder/mitgliederliste/ Members] Central Committee of German Catholics.
• Committee for the preparation of the Reformation anniversary 2017, Member of the Board of Trustees
• European Chemical Regions Network (ECRN), President (2006-2011)
• International Building Exhibition (IBA) Urban Redevelopment 2010, Member of the Board of Trustees[http://www.iba-stadtumbau.de/index.php?kuratorium Board of Trustees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820201146/http://www.iba-stadtumbau.de/index.php?kuratorium |date=20 August 2017 }} International Building Exhibition (IBA) Urban Redevelopment 2010.

Ahead of the 2021 national elections, Haseloff endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/soeder-gets-popularity-boost-german-chancellery-run-latest-poll-2021-04-16/ Second CDU premier drops support for Laschet's German chancellery run] Reuters, 16 April 2021.

• {{flag|Holy See}}: Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre (2003)
• 60px Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2023){{cite web | title=Rede: Ordensverleihung an Ministerpräsidenten | website=Der Bundespräsident | date=23 November 2023 | url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/Reden/2023/11/231124-OV-MP-Laender.html | language=de | access-date=24 November 2023}}

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