Heiko Maas was born in 1966 in Saarlouis. He studied Law, later becoming a State Secretary and then head of the Ministry of the Environment in the Saarland. From 2012 to 2013 he was Minister of Economic Affairs there, before moving to Berlin. From 2013 until 2018 he held the office of Federal Minister of Justice in the cabinet. From 2018 to 2022 Mr. Maas served as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs.