Johannes Beermann has been a member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank since January 2015, responsible for the Directorates Banknotes, Controlling, Administration, Construction and the Procurement Centre. After passing his second state examination in law in 1988, he joined the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family Affairs, Women and Health. In 1990 he started working at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and at the Saxon State Chancellery until 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was head of office for the CDU secretary general Peter Hintze and then became state councillor to the senator of finance of Bremen (1995-1999). From 1999 to 2003, Johannes was Secretary of State for Federal and European Affairs at the Hessian State Chancellery and Commissioner of the State of Hessen to the Federation. After that he worked in a law firm as a lawyer. 2008 until 2014 he was Chief of the State Chancellery and Minister of State for Federal and European Affairs of the Free State of Saxony. Johannes was born in 1960 in Emsdetten, Germany. He studied law at the University in Munich (1980-1985). he completed his Ph.D. in law at the University of Münster.