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Julia Klöckner
Julia Klöckner (born 16 December 1972) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2018. Since 2012, she has also been part of the CDU leadership.
Klöckner first became known in 1995 when she was chosen as the German Wine Queen ("Deutsche Weinkönigin"). From 2002 to 2011 she was a member of parliament in the German Bundestag and, from
State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture under Minister Ilse Aigner. In February 2011 she resigned from this office in order to run the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate. Her successor in this office is Peter Bleser (CDU).
Political career State politics in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Within the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU, Klöckner moved up to the party’s state executive committee in 2003. On 13 June 2004 Julia Klöckner was elected to the county council ("Kreistag") of Bad Kreuznach with 42,888 votes,