Stefan Kapferer

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Stefan Kapferer
Stefan Kapferer is State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology since June 2011.

Back in 1993, Stefan Kapferer started his professional career in politics, when he worked for the Lower Saxony branch of the FDP (Free Democratic Party). Later, in 1994, and for the following 4 years, he became Manager and press spokesperson of the FDP in Lower Saxony. In 1999, he moved to the FDP parliamentary group. Also, in 1999, and for a period of 4 years, he was head of the strategy and campaigns department at the FDP's federal headquarters. Subsequently, in 2003, Stefan Kapferer became Director General at Lower Saxony's State Chancellery and, as such, head of the representation of the Land of Lower Saxony to the Federation until 2008. Then he worked as State Secretary at the Ministry of Economics, Labour and Transport of Lower Saxony. From 2009 to 2011, Stefan Kapferer was State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health.

Stefan Kapferer studied administrative science in Konstanz; after graduation he worked on a research project at the Treuhandanstalt, the agency charged with privatisation of former East German state property.

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