Alois Rainer

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Alois Rainer
Rainer in 2025
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Community
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2025
ChancellorFriedrich Merz
Preceded byCem Özdemir (as Minister of Food and Agriculture)
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 September 2013
Mayor of Haibach
In office
16 March 1996 – 16 March 2014
Personal details
Born (1965-01-07) 7 January 1965 (age 60)
Straubing, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCSU (since 1989)
RelationsGerda Hasselfeldt (sister)
Children2

Alois Georg Josef Rainer (born 7 January 1965) is a German butcher and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria who has been serving as Minister of Agriculture, Food and Community in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025.[1] He has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.

Early Live and education

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Alois Rainer was born in 1965 and grew up in Haibach in the Bavarian Forest. His father was Alois Rainer senior, a butcher and ran a restaurant and was also a politician (CSU).

Rainer inherited not only his father's butchery trade, but also his political career. Both began as mayors in the Lower Bavarian community of Haibach, which has a population of 8,000, before becoming members of the Bundestag – with the older sister making a brief stint in the Bavarian state parliament.

Alois Rainers older sister Gerda Hasselfeldt was also member of the German Bundestag for 30 years from 1987 to 2017 for CSU.[2]

Political career

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Rainer first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[3] In parliament, he served on the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee from 2013 to 2019; in this capacity, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2019 to 2021 he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure, where he is his parliamentary group’s spokesperson.[4] From 2021 to 2025, Rainer chaired the Finance Committee.[5]

Positions

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Upon taking office, Rainer emphasized his desire to ensure less bureaucracy, more freedom, more innovation, and greater social appreciation for agriculture. He did not elaborate on these points. The biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis were not mentioned.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Christian Riedl (28 April 2025), Vom Metzger zum Minister: Alois Rainer im Porträt Bayerischer Rundfunk.
  2. ^ Robert Roßmann (August 20, 2013), Eine Familie in der Politik: Die Hasselfeldts Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  3. ^ "Alois Rainer". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. ^ "German Bundestag - Transport and Digital Infrastructure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  5. ^ Neuaufstellung der Union: Spahn ist jetzt Stellvertreter des Fraktionsvorsitzenden Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 December 2021.
  6. ^ Zauner, David (27 May 2025). "Söders Kulturkämpfer für die Landwirtschaft". Klimareporter° (in German). Retrieved 30 June 2025.
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