Ralph Brinkhaus
Ralph Brinkhaus | |
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Brinkhaus at the 2019 CDU party congress | |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 8 December 2021 – 15 February 2022 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Alexander Gauland Alice Weidel |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Merz |
| Leader of the CDU/CSU Group in the Bundestag | |
| In office 25 September 2018 – 15 February 2022 | |
| First Deputy | Alexander Dobrindt |
| Chief Whip | Michael Grosse-Brömer Thorsten Frei |
| Preceded by | Volker Kauder |
| Succeeded by | Friedrich Merz |
| Member of the Bundestag for Gütersloh I | |
| Assumed office 27 October 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Hubert Deittert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 June 1968 |
| Party | Christian Democratic Union (1998–) |
| Spouse | Elke Tombach (m. 2010) |
| Alma mater | University of Hohenheim |
| Website | ralph-brinkhaus |
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Ralph Brinkhaus (born 15 June 1968) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag between 2018 and 2022, and as such acted as the opposition leader between December 2021 and February 2022.
In 2009, he was directly elected to the German Bundestag in the Constituency Gütersloh I and has been a member of the Bundestag ever since. He is Chairman of the regional CDU in Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) and used to be the Chairman of the local CDU in Gütersloh until March 2019.
Since May 2025, Brinkhaus holds the position as Chairman of the Working Group of Digital and State Modernisation of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag.