Birgit Breuel

Birgit Breuel
Breuel in June 1991
President of the Treuhandanstalt
In office
13 April 1991 – 31 December 1994
Appointed byHelmut Kohl
DeputyHeinrich Hornef
Preceded byDetlev Rohwedder
Succeeded byHeinrich Hornef (as President of the Bundesanstalt für vereinigungsbedingte Sonderaufgaben)
Minister of Finance
of Lower Saxony
In office
9 July 1986 – 21 June 1990
Minister-PresidentErnst Albrecht
Preceded byBurkhard Ritz
Succeeded byHinrich Swieter
Minister for Economics and Transportation
of Lower Saxony
In office
28 June 1978 – 9 July 1986
Minister-PresidentErnst Albrecht
Preceded byErich Küpker
Succeeded byWalter Hirche (Economy, Technology and Transport)
Member of the
Hamburg Parliament
In office
14 April 1970 – 28 June 1978
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded byManfred Sander
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
Personal details
Born
Birgit Münchmeyer

(1937-09-07)7 September 1937
Hamburg-Rissen, Nazi Germany (now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Spouse
Ernst-Jürgen Breuel
(m. 1959)
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg (no degree)
University of Oxford (no degree)
University of Geneva (no degree)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • retail merchant
  • Executive

Birgit Breuel (née Münchmeyer; born 7 September 1937 in Hamburg-Rissen) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as president of the Treuhand Agency and as Commissioner General of Expo 2000 in Hannover. She later worked in several honorary positions.