Rüdiger Kruse MdB

Rüdiger Kruse MdB (CDU) has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009, prior to which he served as a member of the Hamburg Parliament for eight years. Since 1989 Kruse has held the office of Hamburg director of the nature conservation society Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald. In 2015 he was made parliamentary group representative for the maritime economy. As rapporteur for culture and media on the German Bundestag’s Budget Committee he has successfully campaigned for an increase in the annual culture budget in parliamentary consultations. Rüdiger Kruse was instrumental in launching the project 100 years of Now.