Erwin Teufel
Teufel in 2011.
Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg
In office 22 January 1991 – 21 April 2005
Preceded by	Lothar Späth
Succeeded by	Günther Oettinger
Chairman of theCDU Baden-Württemberg
In office 1991 – 29 April 2005
Preceded by	Lothar Späth
Succeeded by	Günther Oettinger
Personal details
Born	(1939-09-04)4 September 1939 (age 85) Zimmern ob Rottweil,Nazi Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Spouse	Edeltraud Schuchter ​ ​ (m. 1962; died 2020)​
Children	4

Erwin Teufel (born 4 September 1939, inZimmern ob Rottweil) is a German politician of theCDU.

Teufel was the leader of the CDU parliamentary group in theLandtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1978 to 1991.

Teufel wasMinister President of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of theCDU state party group from 1991 to 2005, serving asPresident of theBundesrat in 1996/97.

During his time in office, Teufel agreed withPresidentBoris Yeltsin on a series of economic and technical cooperation agreements withRussia, including a high-level joint commission to oversee several institutes in Russia where business administrators, agronomists and scientists will be trained, and also direct a variety of exchange programs.^[1] Among other projects, Teufel oversaw the merger of two regional utilities to formEnBW in 1997 as well as the creation of regionalpublic broadcasting corporationSüdwestrundfunk (SWR) in 1998.

On the European level, Teufel represented Baden-Württemberg on theEuropean Committee of the Regions (CoR) from 1994.^[2] Between 2002 and 2003, he also represented Germany's federal states in theConvention on the Future of Europe.^[3]

Teufel endorsedEdmund Stoiber instead ofAngela Merkel as their parties' candidate to challenge incumbentChancellorGerhard Schröder in the2002 federal elections.^[4]

In October 2004, Teufel announced that he was to step down as minister-president and chairman of the Baden-Württemberg CDU, effective 19 April 2005.Günther Oettinger was elected as his successor by CDU internal party pre-elections. His referendum win – with 60.6 percent of the vote versus 39.4 percent for State Education MinisterAnnette Schavan – was widely seen at the time as a defeat for Teufel, who had promoted Schavan as his preferred successor.

He did resign on 19 April 2005, effecting the memorable line in German short news: "Joseph Ratzinger electedPope Benedict XVI. Teufel [German: Devil] resigned."

• Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), member of the advisory board^[5]
• KfW, Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2002–2007)^[6][7]

• Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD), honorary member of the board of trustees
• Christival, member of the board of trustees^[8]
• donum vitae, member of the board of trustees (since 2001)^[9][10]
• International Hugo Wolf Academy, deputy chairman of the board of trustees^[11]
• Karl Schlecht Foundation, member of the board of trustees^[12]
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), member of the board of trustees^[13]
• Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, Member of the Honorary Senate^[14]
• Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT) at theHeidelberg University, member of the advisory board^[15]
• University of Freiburg, member of the advisory board^[16]
• University of Tübingen, honorary senator^[17]
• Franco-German Institute, president
• Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, member of the board of trustees^[18]
• German Ethics Council, member (2008–2012)^[19]
• Jerusalem Foundation Germany, president (1993–2006)
• Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), member (1983–2008)

Teufel is an honorary member of A.V. Cheruskia Tübingen, a Catholic student fraternity which is a member of theCartellverband.

Teufel is married with Edeltraud and has four children.^{[20][21][22][23]}

• Maß & Mitte – Mut zu einfachen Wahrheiten, Johannis-Verlag Lahr 2006,ISBN 3-501-05181-6.
• Ehe alles zu spät ist: Kirchliche Verzagtheit und christliche Sprengkraft, Herder Verlag, Freiburg u.a. 2013,ISBN 978-3-451-30907-6.

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