Friedrich Merz

Quick Facts

Full Name	Friedrich Merz
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Nov 11, 1955(1955-11-11)
Age	69
Birthplace	Brilon
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Scorpio

Friedrich Merz Biography

Friedrich Merz is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on November 11, 1955 in Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Merz has focused on economic policy, foreign and security policy and family policy. He has described himself as socially conservative and economically liberal, and is seen as a representative of the conservative and pro-business wings of the CDU. He has been chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke association which promotes German-American understanding and Atlanticism, and is a staunch supporter of the European Union and NATO. As a young politician in the 1970s and 1980s, he was a staunch supporter of anticommunism, the dominant state doctrine of West Germany and a core tenet of the CDU. In 2018, he described himself as “a truly convinced European, a convinced transatlanticist” and said that “I stand for a cosmopolitan Germany whose roots lie in Christian ethics and the European Enlightenment and whose most important political allies are the democracies of the West. I gladly use this expression again: The democracies of the West.” He especially advocates closer relations between Germany and France. Merz has criticized Donald Trump more harshly than Angela Merkel did and has especially criticized Trump’s trade war against Europe. In 2018, he co-authored an article in defence of the European project, which among other things called for “an army for Europe.”

In 1972, at the age of seventeen, he became a member of the CDU’s youth wing, the Young Union, and he has been described by German media as a member of the “Andean Pact,” a supposed network of influential CDU members formed by members of the Young Union during a trip to the South American Andes region in 1979. He became President of the Brilon branch of the Young Union in 1980.

Friedrich Merz Net Worth

Friedrich Merz is one of the richest Lawyer from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Friedrich Merz 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He served as a Member of the European Parliament 1989–1994, a member of the Bundestag 1994–2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group 2000–2002. In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Friedrich Merz Dating?

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In October 1998 Merz became vice-chairman and in February 2000 Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group (alongside Michael Glos), succeeding Wolfgang Schäuble. In this capacity, he was the opposition leader in the Bundestag during Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s first term.

Facts & Trivia

Taylor Ranked on the list of most popular Lawyer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Friedrich Merz celebrates birthday on November 11 of every year.

Upon leaving politics, Merz has worked as a corporate lawyer. Since 2004 he has been a Senior Counsel at Mayer Brown’s Düsseldorf office, where he works on the corporate finance team; before 2004 he was a senior counsel with Cornelius Bartenbach Haesemann. His work as a lawyer has made him a multimillionaire. He has also taken on numerous positions on corporate boards, including the following: