Melanie Huml

Melanie Huml (née Beck; born 9 September 1975) is a German physician and politician. A member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, Huml has been serving as State Minister for Health and Nursing in the cabinets of successive Minister-Presidents Horst Seehofer (2013-2018) and Markus Söder (since 2018). She has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2003.

Melanie Huml
Minister of Health and Nursing in Bavaria
Assumed office
2013
Member of the Landtag of Bavaria
Assumed office
2003
Personal details
Born (1975-09-09) 9 September 1975
Bamberg, Bavaria
Political partyChristian Social Union
Spouse(s)Markus Huml
Profession
  • Physician
  • Politician

Huml previously served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women from 2007 to 2008, and later served as State Secretary for the Ministry of Environment and Health from 2008 to 2013.

Early life

Huml was born to Michael and Marianne Beck in 1975 in Bamberg, Bavaria. After completing primary school in Hallstadt, she attended Kaiser-Heinrich-Gymnasium Bamberg (KHG) until graduating in 1995. She subsequently studied human medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Huml became a licensed doctor on 1 October 2004.

Political career

Career in state politics

In 1993, Huml began her political career as a member of the Young Union (JU), the youth organization of the CSU and its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union, and served as a member of the State Committee of the Bavarian Youth Union from 2003 to 2001. She joined the CSU in 2001 and has been a member of the district board of Upper Franconia since 2003.[1]

In the 2003 state election, Huml was elected to the Landtag of Bavaria in the constituency of Upper Franconia. In the Landtag, Huml served as a member of the Committee for Social, Health and Family Policy until 2007.

In October 2007, she was appointed by Minister-President Günther Beckstein as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Family and Women in his Cabinet. Starting in May 2008, she concurrently held a position on the City Council of Bamberg, a body she would serve on until April 2014. She has represented the constituency of Bamberg City in the Landtag since 2008 as a result of that year’s state election.[2]

Newly elected Minister-President Horst Seehofer appointed Huml as Secretary of State for the Ministry of Environment and Health in October 2008,[3] a position she would hold until her appointment as Minister of Health and Nursing in 2013.[4]

Under Huml’s leadership, Bavaria confirmed Germany’s first cases of COVID-19 in late January 2020.[5] By July 2020, she oversaw the government’s effort to make free testing available to all residents and invest 200 million euros to expand laboratory capacity, both public and private.[6]

Role in national politics

Huml was a CSU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004 and 2009.[7]

As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, Huml is a member of the Health Committee. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2013 federal elections, she was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on health policy, led by Jens Spahn and Karl Lauterbach. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, she was again part of the working group on health policy, this time led by Hermann Gröhe, Georg Nüßlein and Malu Dreyer.

Other activities

Personal life

Huml has been married to attorney Markus Huml since May 2005 and is the mother of two sons, born in 2012 and 2015, respectively.[10][11] She is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.[12]

References
  1. "Parteien: Neues CSU-Präsidium ist komplett". Focus Online. 16 December 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  2. "Oberfranken wählt Schwarz". Bayerischer Rundfunk. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  3. "Bayerns Kabinett: Seehofer verjüngt CSU-Führung radikal". Spiegel Online. 30 October 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  4. "Seehofers Kabinett: Das ist Bayerns neue Regierungsmannschaft". Augsburger Allgemeine. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  5. Paul Carrel (January 28, 2020), Three more people in Germany infected with coronavirus: state ministry Reuters.
  6. Melissa Eddy (August 5, 2020), Welcome Back to Germany. Now Take Your Free Virus Test. New York Times.
  7. Profile: Melanie Huml Landtag of Bavaria.
  8. Board and Members, 2019 Hanns Seidel Foundation.
  9. Board of Trustees University of Bamberg.
  10. "Melanie Huml wird Mutter – Staatssekretärin bringt Buben zur Welt" (in German). augsburger-allgemeine.de. 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  11. "Ministerin Huml wird zum zweiten Mal Mama". Augsburger Allgemeine. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  12. "Kurzvita Melanie Huml" (in German). csu-landtag.de. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
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