Marion Brigitta Kiechle (formerly Kiechle-Schwarz; born April 4, 1960 in Oberkirch) is a German physician, scientist, author, and former politician (CSU). Since October 2000, she has been Director of the Gynaecology Clinic at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich and holds the Chair of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
On March 21, 2018, Markus Söder appointed her to his cabinet as Bavarian Minister of Science. Kiechle is chair of the Bavarian Bioethics Commission and deputy chair of the Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research. Initially independent, she joined the CSU in April 2018 and, on the 21st of that month, was placed in the hopeless fifth place on the Upper Bavaria district list for the 2018 Bavarian state election. After the end of the legislative period in November 2018, she left the government and returned to TUM.
Engagement
Since 2021, Marion Kiechle has been chairwoman of the board of trustees for the Hospice House of Life project in Munich. Since February 2023, she has been a member of the administrative advisory board of FC Bayern Munich.
Privates
Since April 2010, she has been married to television journalist and sports commentator Marcel Reif, her fourth wife. Before that, she was married to a special education teacher and two doctors.
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