abstract:Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden (born 18 November 1965 in Hanover, Lower Saxony) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, serving as Minister of State at the German Chancellery since 28 October 2009 (after the German federal election, September 2009, Angela Merkel formed a black-yellow coalition and her Cabinet Merkel II). Klaeden has been a Member of lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, since 1994, and has been spokesman for foreign policy of the CDU/CSU faction since 2005 and treasurer of the CDU since 2006.