Melanie Huml

Melanie Huml (née Beck; born 9 September 1975) is a German physician and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder since 2021.

[6] By July 2020, she oversaw the government's effort to make free testing available to all residents and invest 200 million euros to expand laboratory capacity, both public and private.

[7] As part of a cabinet reshuffle following criticism of Huml's crisis management during the pandemic, Söder replace her with Klaus Holetschek and instead appointed her State Minister for European and International Affairs.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2013 federal elections, Huml was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on health policy, led by Jens Spahn and Karl Lauterbach.

In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, she was again part of the working group on health policy, this time led by Hermann Gröhe, Georg Nüßlein and Malu Dreyer.