Joachim Pfeiffer | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2002–2021 | |
| Succeeded by | Christina Stumpp |
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| Born | (1967-04-25)25 April 1967 (age 58) Mutlangen, Baden-Württemberg,West Germany |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Alma mater | University of Stuttgart |
| Occupation | Politician |
Joachim Pfeiffer (Mutlangen, 25 April 1967) is a former German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of theBundestag, the German federal parliament, from 2002 until 2021.[1]
Pfeiffer studied business economics at theUniversity of Stuttgart. From 1992-1997, he worked for the electricity supply company Energie Versorgung Schwaben AG (EVS), where he was involved in controlling, mergers and acquisitions and public-private partnerships. He received his doctorate in 1997, and from 1997 until 2002 he was the head of economic and employment promotion activities for Stuttgart. Since 2006, he has been giving lectures on energy policy at the Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy at the University of Stuttgart.[2]
Pfeiffer represented theWaiblingen constituency from the2002 election. During the firstcoalition government led by ChancellorAngela Merkel from 2005-2009, he served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s coordinator for energy issues and as deputy spokesperson for economic affairs.[3] Since 2014, he has been the group's spokesperson for economic affairs and energy.
In addition to his committee assignments, Pfeiffer was a member of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group as well as of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with theASEAN States. From November 2015, he was a member of an informal German-Russian working group on energy cooperation, convening parliamentarians of both the GermanBundestag and the RussianState Duma as well as business representatives from both countries.[4] From 2019 until 2021, he was a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly.[5]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government following the2009 federal elections, Pfeiffer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on economic affairs and energy policy, led byKarl-Theodor zu Guttenberg andRainer Brüderle. He has since served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s spokesperson for economic affairs. Following the2013 federal elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement.
Pfeiffer won his constituency a fifth time in the2017 election. By 2021, after several party members resigned from their seats amid corruption accusations, Pfeiffer too became the subject of journalistic investigations into his business activities. In April 2021 he announced that he would not stand in the2021 federal elections, but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6] In a public statement he explained he did not want to give up lucrative side jobs which, according to him, had helped rather than hampered, his independence as policy maker.
Since 2022, Pfeiffer has been an associate partner atpublic affairs agencyKekst CNC in Berlin.[7]
In 2008, Pfeiffer led a legislative effort to cutprice subsidies for renewable energies by as much as 30 percent the following year; lawmakers eventually compromised on an 8 to 10 percent annual decrease over the subsequent three years.[8]
During theeurozone crisis, Pfeiffer supported Germany’s stance that it would oppose any plan to introduceeuro bonds, calling them "poison."[9]
On a 2011 trip toTajikistan, he expressed support for theRogun Dam project, calling "the best project for the development of the region."[10]
WhenEADS and its American partnerNorthrop Grumman in 2010 cited unfair competition for abandoning their joint bid for a $35 billion contract to build tanker jets for the US military, Pfeiffer publicly called the move "a scandalous, unacceptable act."[11] In a parliamentary debate over the government’s decision on the sale of more than 200model 2A7+ Leopard tanks toSaudi Arabia in 2011, Pfeiffer reasoned that it is in Germany's interest "to offer our employees in the defense industry long-term prospects."[12] In a 2015 interview withDPA news agency, he held that Germany must do everything possible – including arms exports – to supportSaudi Arabia and similar states, arguing that these countries would help to stabilize the "powder keg" in theMiddle East.[13]
In June 2017, Pfeiffer voted against Germany’s introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[14]
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