Peter Tauber

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
File:Tauber, Peter-8785.jpg
Peter Tauber (2014)

Peter Michael Tauber (born 22 August 1974 in Frankfurt) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Since 2009 he is a MP of the German Bundestag. On 16 December 2013 he was appointed Secretary General of the CDU.

Biography

After high school diploma in 1994 in Gelnhausen Tauber studied Medieval and Modern History, German Philology, and Political Science at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, temporarily interrupted by military service. In 2000 he finished his studies as a Magister Artium with distinction. From 2000 to 2001 he was a research fellow at Goethe University. From 2001 to 2003 he was State General Manager of the Junge Union in Hesse, since 2003 he was chairman of the Junge Union in Hesse. From 2003 to 2004 he was personal advisor of the Hessian Culture Minister Karin Wolff. In 2007 he attained a doctorate with Lothar Gall. He wrote his thesis about the social position and ideological functionalisation of sports in the German Kaiserreich. Since 2008 until the Federal elections in 2009 he was press spokesman of the company of Deutsche Vermögensberatung. In 2008 he also became a lecturer at the history department of the Goethe University.

Tauber is a member of the Junge Union since 1991, of the CDU since 1992. From 1993 to 2007 he was City Councillor in Wächtersbach. Since 2005 he also was MP of the county council (Kreistag) of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. 2008 he was elected board member of CDU Hesse. 2009 he was elected into the Bundestag. On 16 December 2013 he was appointed preliminary as Secretary General of the CDU party by Angela Merkel. On 5 April 2014 he was elected on the CDU federal party convention. Tauber stated after his election, the CDU needed more young people, more women and more migrants within its ranks.[1] Specialties of Tauber are network policies, biopolicies and social policies. Tauber succeeded Hermann Gröhe, who was appointed Health Minister after the federal elections.

References

  1. Tauber ist neuer CDU-Generalsekretär, Frankfurter Allgemeine, in German