at an engineering company as a financial director from 1996 to 2001 and as a managing director from 2001 to 2005.

Political career

Dobrindt joined the Junge Union (Junior party of the C.S.U.) in 1986 and 4 years later the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.He has been a member of the German National Parliament (Bundestag) since the 2002 federal elections