Josef Schuster

Josef Schuster (born 20 March 1954) is a German physician[1][2] and since November 2014 President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland).

His father David Schuster was a merchant who was forced into exile and chose to emigrate to Palestine in 1938.

Schuster is a volunteer, acting as an emergency physician, for the Bavarian section of the German Red Cross.

He is a member of the Bavarian Bioethics Commission and the central institutional review board of the German Medical Association.

When Dieter Graumann stepped down as President of the Central Council, his election on November 30, 2014, as the successor was uncontested.