Background
Barren, Michael James was born on May 4, 1958 in Riverdale, Maryland. Son of Daniel James and Catherine Marie (McCarthy) Barren.
politician Member of the Hamburg Parliament
Barren, Michael James was born on May 4, 1958 in Riverdale, Maryland. Son of Daniel James and Catherine Marie (McCarthy) Barren.
After finishing school in 1977 at Wandsbeker Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium, Freytag first completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk and then studied law at the University of Hamburg. In 1990 he graduated with a PhD thesis on the possibilities and limits of parliamentary reform of the German Bundestag.
For some time he worked in overseas offices of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chicago and at the German Business Association of Hong Kong. From 1991 to 2001, Michael Freytag worked in corporate banking at Deutsche Bank AG. Following this, Freytag moved full-time into politics. Michael Freytag, is married and has three children.
There, he was Chairman of the Group from 1986 and has since 2000 has been District Chairman of Hamburg-Nord. From 2002 to 2007 he served as Deputy Chairman of the CDU in Hamburg. On 15 September 2007 he was elected with 93.62% of the votes in place of Dirk Fischer to become chairman of the CDU in Hamburg, and again in June 2008 with 72.95% of the votes.
Freytag was from 1982 to 1991, a representative of the district assembly in Hamburg-Nord and was here from 1986 to 1991 Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group. On 17 March 2004 he was appointed as a Senator for Urban Development and Environment in the Senate of Hamburg, led by Ole von Beust and on January 1, 2007 he succeeded Wolfgang Peiner as Finance Senator of Hamburg following his resignation from political office. In March 2010, Freytag resigned from his position as chairman and as Senator of Finance.
Captain United States Army, 1984-1987, major, since 1993. Member American Bar Association, Ohio Bar Association, Columbus Bar Association, Judge Advisers Association, University Cottage Club, Princeton University Alumni Association (interviewer schools committee since 1987), KC.
Married Wilma Bates Niden, July 25, 1981. Children: Nicholas Michael, Patrick Niden, Christine Chapin.