Education
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Technische Universität München.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Technische Universität München.
Following his military service with the German Air Force in Manching, Brandl earned a degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble between 1997 and 2003. Foreign his diploma theses he stayed six months at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Meylan. He subsequently took part in the doctoral program of the Bayerische Motoren Werke Group.
In 2009, he briefly worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group.
Brand was elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 national elections, succeeding Horst Seehofer. In 2013, he joined the Budget Committee, where he serves as his parliamentary group"s rapporteur on the budget of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI).
Brandl has in the past voted in favor of German participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions as well as in United Nations-mandated European Union peacekeeping missions on the African continent, such as in Somalia – both Operation Atalanta and EUTM Somalia – (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), Darfur/Sudan (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), South Sudan (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), Mali (2013, 2014 and 2015), the Central African Republic (2014) and Liberia (2015). Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik (Generalized System of Preferences), Vice President.
He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel"s Christian Democrats (Christian Democratic Union together with the Bavarian Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany following the 2013 German elections, he was part of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Dorothee Bär and Brigitte Zypries.
Defence Committee; Budget Committee]
Brandl has been a member of the Defense Committee since 2009. In addition, he is a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, Brahmanand , BfV and MAD. Bundesverband eMobilität (BEM), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
Federal Agency for Civic Education, Member of the Board of Trustees (2009–2013).