Boris Rhein

Boris Rhein (born 2 January 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022. He has been active in the politics of Hesse since the late 1990s. After being elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 1999, he served as the state's Minister for the Interior from 2010 until 2014 and as the Minister for Science and Art from 2014 to 2019. On 31 May 2022, he was elected to succeed Volker Bouffier as the Minister-President of Hesse. He led the CDU to a victory in the 2023 Hessian state election. Early life and career Rhein was born on 2 January 1972 in Frankfurt am Main. His father, Peter Rhein, headed a department at a local school. After obtaining his Abitur at Frankfurt's Lessing-Gymnasium, Rhein studied law at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1991 until 1997. From 2001 until 2006, he practiced as a lawyer in his hometown. Political career In 1990, Rhein joined Junge Union, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), and served on organisation's state board from 1996 until 2002. At the 1999 Hessian state election Rhein was elected to a seat in the Landtag of Hesse, which he occupied until 2006. He then returned to the state parliament at the 2013 Hessian state election. From 2008 to 2012, he led his party in the city of Frankfurt and ran to become its mayor in 2012, but lost to the social democrat Peter Feldmann. Feldmann would be ousted as Mayor by a recall election in the same year he became Minister-President.