Helge Braun

Helge Braun
Braun in 2017
Chair of the Budget Committee
Assumed office
15 December 2021
DeputyBettina Hagedorn
Preceded byPeter Boehringer
Head of the Chancellery
Minister for Special Affairs
In office
14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byPeter Altmaier
Succeeded byWolfgang Schmidt
State Minister to the Chancellor for Bureaucracy reduction, better regulation and Federal-State Relations
In office
17 December 2013 – 14 March 2018
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byEckart von Klaeden (Bureaucracy reduction and better regulation)
Succeeded byHendrik Hoppenstedt
Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Research
In office
28 October 2009 – 17 December 2013
ChancellorAngela Merkel
MinisterAnnette Schavan
Johanna Wanka
Preceded byAndreas Storm
Succeeded byStefan Müller
Member of the Bundestag
for Hesse
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
In office
27 October 2009 – 26 October 2021
Preceded byRüdiger Veit
Succeeded byFelix Döring
ConstituencyGießen
In office
17 October 2002 – 18 October 2005
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyChristian Democratic Union List
Personal details
Born (1972-10-18) 18 October 1972 (age 52)
Giessen, Hesse, West Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Alma materUniversity of Giessen
Occupation
  • Politician
  • physician
Websitehelge-braun.de

Helge Reinhold Braun (born 18 October 1972) is a German physician and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Head of the Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was the Parliamentary Secretary of State for Bureaucracy Reduction and Federal-State Relations at the Chancellery between 2013 and 2018.

Braun, who was thought of as a party insider, loyal to moderate Merkel, ran in the December 2021 CDU leadership election, but only came in a distant third.