From 1996 to 2016 he was chief executive officer of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations.
Göhner joined the CDU and Junge Union during his school years.
There he was chairman of the Committee for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from 1986 to 1990.
Reinhard Göhner always entered the Bundestag via the North Rhine-Westphalia state list.
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