Background
POFALLA, Ronald was born on May 15, 1959 in Weeze.
POFALLA, Ronald was born on May 15, 1959 in Weeze.
Pofalla studied social pedagogy at the Fachhochschule in Kleve. After finishing with a Diplom in 1981 he studied law at the University of Cologne.
In 1991 he passed the second Staatsexamen. Since that time Pofalla has been licensed to work as a lawyer At first he was engaged in the Junge Union.
He was chairman of the JU in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1986 to 1992.
Ronald Pofalla has been repeatedly criticized for being rude towards other representatives of the Bundestag and other secretaries of the German government. In September 2011 he seriously insulted Wolfgang Bosbach, senior group leader of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)-group in the Bundestag after an in-house discussion about the enhancement of the European Financial Stability Facility.
Following the 2013 national elections, Pofalla resigned as head of the Federal Chancellery. In January, 2014 it was reported that Pofalla would be joining the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned national rail network of Germany.
He had previously worked for the company"s subsidiary Data Base Netz between 2005 and 2009.
At Deutsche Bahn, Pofalla took up a “specially created lobbying post” said to carry compensation of more than a million euros a year. His successor in the Bundestag is Thorsten Hoffmann. After transitioning to the private sector, Pofalla was made co-chairman of the St. Petersburg Dialogue, a semiofficial German-Russian symposium.
During his time in politics, Pofalla took an active interest in Belarus.
In 2012, he publicly condemned the execution of Vladislav Kovalyov and Dmitry Konovalov, both 26, saying this move would further alienate Belarus from Europe. "Lukashenko thus drifts even further away from our European values," he said.
"The already heavily burdened relation between Belarus and Europe will be rendered yet more difficult by this."
In the context of the Ukraine crisis, Pofalla has commented that “it wasn’t clever of Barack Obama to have downgraded Russia, in connection with the Ukraine conflict, to the level of a regional power.”
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Vice-President of the Council (2009-2013).
Protestant
Quotations: “specially created lobbying post”. "Lukashenko thus drifts even further away from our European values,".
Pizza-Connection; Christian Democratic Union]
Pofalla has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union since 1975. Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Member of the Presidium (2009-2013)
ZDF, Member of the Television Board (2005-2009)
KfW, Member of the Supervisory Board (2002-2006).