Boris Rhein

Boris Rhein
Portrait of a middle-aged white man wearing a dark suit and glasses
Rhein in 2019
Minister-President of Hesse
Assumed office
31 May 2022
DeputyTarek Al-Wazir, Kaweh Mansoori
Preceded byVolker Bouffier
President of the Landtag of Hesse
In office
18 January 2019 – 31 May 2022
Preceded byNorbert Kartmann
Succeeded byAstrid Wallmann
Hessian Cabinet
Minister for Science and Art
In office
18 January 2014 – 17 January 2019
Minister-President
  • Volker Bouffier
Preceded byEva Kühne-Hörmann
Succeeded byAngela Dorn-Rancke
Minister for the Interior and Sport
In office
31 August 2010 – 18 January 2014
Minister-President
  • Volker Bouffier
Preceded byVolker Bouffier
Succeeded byPeter Beuth
State Secretary in the
Ministry of the Interior and Sport
In office
5 February 2009 – 31 August 2010
Serving with Horst Westerfeld
Minister-PresidentRoland Koch
MinisterVolker Bouffier
Preceded byOda Scheibelhuber
Succeeded byWerner Koch
Landtag constituencies
Member of the
Landtag of Hesse
for Frankfurt am Main
Assumed office
18 January 2014
Preceded byGudrun Osterburg
ConstituencyFrankfurt am Main VI
In office
5 April 1999 – 14 July 2006
Preceded byHans Burggraf
Succeeded byHans-Dieter Schnell
ConstituencyFrankfurt am Main III
Personal details
Born (1972-01-02) 2 January 1972 (age 52)
Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partyChristian Democratic Union (1990–)
SpouseTanja Raab-Rhein
Children2
EducationGoethe University Frankfurt

Boris Rhein (born 2 January 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022. He has been active in the politics of Hesse since the late 1990s. After being elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 1999, he served as the state's Minister for the Interior from 2010 until 2014 and as the Minister for Science and Art from 2014 to 2019. On 31 May 2022, he was elected to succeed Volker Bouffier as the Minister-President of Hesse. He led the CDU to a victory in the 2023 Hessian state election.


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