Florian Hahn

Florian Hahn has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office since 6 May 2025. Grounded in the new government’s foreign policy principles of promoting Security, Freedom and Prosperity, his regional responsibilities encompass transatlantic relations; relations with Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine; and the Asia-Pacific, South Asia, Israel and the Near East Regions. In addition, his policy portfolio includes external trade and economic security as well as security policy issues and energy policy.
Born on March 14, 1974, in Munich, Florian Hahn began his career as a Member of the German Bundestag in 2009. He studied electronic marketing at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing. From 2003 to 2009, he served as deputy head of policy and party work for the CSU. In the German Parliament, he was the CSU foreign policy spokesman (2014–2018), the European policy spokesman (2018–2021) and the defense policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2021 to 2025.