Markus Blume


Markus Blume is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. Since 14 March 2018, he has been serving as Secretary General of the CSU party.

Early life and career

Blume was born in Munich. He graduated in political science from the Munich School of Public Policy in 1998. In 2002, he founded consulting firm Content5 in Munich. He worked as spokesperson and strategic adviser of Viktor Vekselberg’s Zurich-based investment holding Renova Management AG from 2005 until 2008.

Political career

Blume joined the CSU in 1995. From 1997 until 2001, he served as chairman of the Association of Christian Democratic Students in Bavaria and was an ex-officio member of the CSU leadership under chairman Edmund Stoiber.
Blume has been a representative of Stimmkreis München-Ramersdorf in the Landtag of Bavaria since the 2008 state elections. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Media Affairs, Infrastructure, Building and Transport, Energy and Technology, and of the Committee on Health and Care. Since 2011, he has been serving as chairman of the CSU Business Council.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the 2013 German elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Dorothee Bär and Brigitte Zypries.
Between 2015 and 2017, Blume was in charge of re-drafting the CSU party's new manifesto. From 2017, he served as Deputy Secretary General under the leadership of party chairman Horst Seehofer and Secretary General Andreas Scheuer.
Blume was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017. In the negotiations to form another coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on cultural affairs and media, led by Monika Grütters, Dorothee Bär and Michael Roth.

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