Background
Born in Munich, Bavaria, Hohlmeier is the daughter of former German politician Franz Josef Strauß.
Born in Munich, Bavaria, Hohlmeier is the daughter of former German politician Franz Josef Strauß.
She completed a training as a hotel manager.
Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs. Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs, 1998–2005
Between 1998 and 2005, Hohlmeier served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs in the government of Minister-President Edmund Stoiber. Hohlmeier was a Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in May 2004.
She has since been serving on the Committee on Budgets and the parliament’s delegation for relations with the People"s Republic of China.
In 2014, she also joined the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. On the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Hohlmeier is the EPP group"s spokesperson.
In 2012, she also served as rapporteur on the Directive on Attacks against Information Systems. On the Budget Committee, Hohlmeier serves as the European Parliament’s buildings rapporteur.
In 2011, she drafted the relevant reports for a Budget Committee decision on a controversial €38 million purchase of three buildings – one in Strasbourg and two in Brussels – so as to increase office space for MEPs and their staff in the light of the 2013 enlargement of the European Union.
On the recommendation of Hohlmeier, the committee in 2013 approved signing a 12-year lease on a German-owned 40,000 square meters office building at Brussels’ Square de Meeûson In early 2014, the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) chose Hohlmeier to be the party list’s number 3 for the 2014 European elections, following Markus Ferber and Angelika Niebler. Hanns Seidel Foundation, Member
Marianne Strauß Stiftung, Deputy Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees.
In 2005, she decided to step down from her office, amid accusations she allowed party votes to be falsified and got jobs for friends. She was replaced by Siegfried Schneider. Already in 2014, Hohlmeier had resigned as head of the Munich branch of the Christian Social Union after she reportedly threatened critics within the party with unspecified revelations about their personal lives.
Along with Socialist Member of the European Parliament Eider Gardiazabal Rubial, Hohlmeier also serves as the parliament’s rapporteur on the 2015 budget.
Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present
Hohlmeier has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a member of the Special Committee on Organized Crime, Corruption and Money Laundering. Since 2014, Hohlmeier has been a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity, Countryside, Hunting and Recreational Fisheries.
BayWa, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2013)
Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD), Member of the Board of Trustees
German European Security Association, Member of the Board of Trustees
Nathalie Todenhöfer Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees
Turn- und Sportverein 1860 München, Member of the Supervisory Board (1999-2007).