Herrmann served as Secretary of State in the Bavarian Labour Ministry from 1998 to 1999 and faction leader of the CSU in the Landtag of Bavaria from 2003 to 2007. In October 2008 he was a candidate within the CSU party for the Minister-President of Bavaria but he withdrew candidacy in favor of
Horst Seehofer. Since 2007, Herrmann has been serving as Bavarian State Minister of the Interior. As one of Bavaria’s representatives at the
Bundesrat, Hermann is a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the Committee on Transport as well as the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning. Herrmann served as a CSU delegate to the
Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In the negotiations to form a
coalition government of the Christian Democrats and the
Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the
2009 federal elections, Herrmann was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by
Wolfgang Schäuble and
Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger; and of the working group on transport and building policies, led by
Hans-Peter Friedrich and
Patrick Döring. In the negotiations to form a
Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and the
Social Democrats (SPD) following the
2013 federal elections, he was again part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, this time led by
Hans-Peter Friedrich and
Thomas Oppermann. During his time in office, Herrmann witnessed numerous incidents of violence in Bavaria, including
a train attack in
Würzburg on 18 July 2016,
a mass shooting that killed nine people in
Munich on 22 July 2016 and
a suicide bombing in
Ansbach on 24 July 2016. ==Political positions==