Boris Rhein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Minister-President of Hesse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 31 May 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | Tarek Al-Wazir, Kaweh Mansoori | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Volker Bouffier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President of the Landtag of Hesse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 18 January 2019 – 31 May 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Norbert Kartmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Astrid Wallmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany (now Germany) | 2 January 1972||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Christian Democratic Union (1990–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Tanja Raab-Rhein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Goethe University Frankfurt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boris Rhein (born 2 January 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022. He has been active in the politics of Hesse since the late 1990s. After being elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 1999, he served as the state's Minister for the Interior from 2010 until 2014 and as the Minister for Science and Art from 2014 to 2019. On 31 May 2022, he was elected to succeed Volker Bouffier as the Minister-President of Hesse. He led the CDU to a victory in the 2023 Hessian state election.