Gerda Hasselfeldt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gerda Hasselfeldt
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jul 7, 1950(1950-07-07)
Age	74
Birthplace	Straubing
Country	Germany
Birth City	Bavaria
Horoscope	Cancer

Gerda Hasselfeldt Biography

Gerda Hasselfeldt is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on July 7, 1950 in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany. Gerda Hasselfeldt (born 7 July 1950) is a German politician belonging to the Christian Social Union (CSU) who, in addition to other official positions, was vice chairperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentarians group and chairperson of the Bundestag group of CSU parliamentarians. After her detour from politics, she was elected president of the German Red Cross in 2018.

Following the federal elections of both 2005 and 2009 Hasselfeldt became Vice- President of the German Bundestag. She served in this position until she was appointed the position of head of the Bundestag group composed of CSU parliamentarians in the year 2011, succeeding Hans-Peter Frederick. From 2011 to 2017, she headed the group along together with her co-chair who was a member of her party, the CDU, Volker Kauder.

Criticizing Herman Van Rompuy’s 2012 road map for a eurozone-wide fiscal policy, Hasselfeldt rejected proposals for a “eurozone fiscal capacity”, arguing the idea looked to her like a “transfer union.”

In a 2012 letter to Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, Hasselfeldt asked the online retailer to suspend sales of a children’s puzzle bearing the image of the crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp, calling the product ‘a slap in the face’ for Holocaust victims. Just 12 miles from the Bavarian capital Munich, Dachau lies within Hasselfeldt’s constituency.

Hasselfeldt was the financial policy spokeswoman for the CDU/CSU Parliamentary section for seven consecutive years. In 2002, she was the first deputy chairperson of the parliamentary group under the direction of Angela Merkel, the chairwoman. In the course of the 2005 election campaign she was in charge of the consumer protection, agriculture and the environment within Merkel’s shadow cabinet, which included nine members.

Gerda Hasselfeldt Net Worth

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

A trained economist Hasselfeldt became an elected member of the German Bundestag in 1987 federal elections. He was named the Federal Minister of Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development by the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl in a cabinet overhaul two years after.

In 1991, she served as the Health Minister of the Federal Government. She declared her resignation on the 27th of April of 1992, citing that being arrested by her closest adviser Reinhard Hoppe, who was accused of being a spy for Poland was a blow to her health. Her successor was Horst Seehofer.

A proponent of strict austerity policies during the Eurozone crisis, Hasselfeldt helped organize a majority of German lawmakers to approve a series of measures to assist Greece recover from its government debt crisis. In 2011, she demanded that Italy must do more to convince financial markets of its creditworthiness after a rating downgrade by Standard & Poor’s. In 2013, she said Germany was watching France “with a degree of concern” and criticized French President François Hollande for not implementing spending cuts and structural reforms with “sufficient vigor.” In a reaction to the European Commission’s decision to give France two extra years to cut its deficit in early 2015, Hasselfeldt wrote to the body’s president Jean-Claude Juncker in a letter to say that the timing of the decision – coinciding with the euro zone vehemently urging Greece to stick to rules set by the Eurogroup despite significant domestic resistance – “should not create the dangerous impression that we want to apply double standards,” and that the same rules needed to apply to all countries whatever their size.

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In the context of Turkey’s largely failed attempted to ban microblogging service Twitter in 2014, Hasselfeldt reaffirmed that “[her] position has always been that Turkey should not be allowed into the EU, and that we are pursuing the principle of privileged partnership.” In 2016, Hasselfeldt warned that Britain should not expect to have preferential treatment in case of a Brexit, saying “to me, it is clear: exit means exit. Citizens have to know that with this decision there will be no special treatment for Britain.”

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Gerda Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Gerda Hasselfeldt celebrates birthday on July 7 of every year.

In April 2016, Hasselfeldt announced that she would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.