Currently, the title is commonly given to the head of the Chancellery to provide him with a vote in cabinet meetings.
Before assuming the top Bundesbank position in 2011, from February 2006, he served as Head of Division IV (Economic and Financial Policy) in the Federal Chancellery.
After the change of government in 1969, he became head of the German Chancellery from 1974 to 1980 under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
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Among contributors to the Workshops were Eckart von Klaeden, Minister of State at the German Chancellery, Karsten D. Voigt, the Coordinator for German-American Cooperation in the German Foreign Office, Julianne Smith of the American think tank CSIS, and current Chatham House director Robin Niblett.
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).