Eckart von Klaeden

Eckart von Klaeden took his Abitur at the Emperor William Gymnasium in Hanover in 1985, served his military service from 1985 to 1987 and became a Korvettenkapitän (corvette captain) of the Reserves.

Between 1992 and 1996, he served on the board of the CDU in Lower Saxony, under the leadership of successive chairmen Josef Stock (1992–94) and Christian Wulff (1994-96).

In addition to his committee assignments, von Klaeden served as chairman of the German-Hungarian Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2002 until 2005.

Starting in 2004, von Klaeden was a member of the national board of the CDU under the leadership of chairwoman Angela Merkel.

[4] At a November 2023 meeting of The Heritage Foundation, von Klaeden "implored Michael Anton to ask Trump to please talk to America's European allies as he formulated his foreign policy".