Background
She is the daughter of merchant bankers who owned the bank Münchmeyer & Company
She is the daughter of merchant bankers who owned the bank Münchmeyer & Company
Student, University Hamburg. Student, Oxford University. Student, Geneva University.
She is the former President of the Treuhand Agency, and Commissioner General of the Expo 2000 in Hannover, and later worked in several honorary positions. Birgit Münchmeyer came from a Lower Saxony family of traders and private bankers. Birgit Breuel studied political science at the Universities of Hamburg, Oxford and Geneva.
In 1966, she entered into the Christian Democratic Union. From 1978 to 1986 she was Minister of Economy and Transport in Lower Saxony, then to 1990 was the Lower Saxony Finance Minister.
In 1990, Breuel was elected to the Executive Board of the Treuhand - a holding firm responsible for the sale of German Democratic Republic state assets. A year later she became the successor of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
While Rohwedder had been cautious about the sale of most state assets, favouring a worker-owned solution if possible, Breuel favoured quick privatization. She departed in 1995 from this office.
Breuel then became Commissioner-General of the World Expo Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Atlantik-Brücke.
Married Ernst Breuel, 1959. 3 children.