Stephan Mayer | |
|---|---|
 Mayer in 2012 | |
| Secretary General of theChristian Social Union | |
| In office 23 February 2022 – 3 May 2022 | |
| Leader | Markus Söder |
| Deputy | Tanja Schorer-Dremel |
| Preceded by | Markus Blume |
| Succeeded by | Martin Huber |
| Parliamentary State Secretary forthe Interior and Sports | |
| In office 14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Minister | Horst Seehofer |
| Preceded by | Ole Schröder |
| Member of theBundestag forBavaria | |
| Assumed office 22 September 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Josef Hollerith |
| Constituency | Altötting |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1973-12-15)15 December 1973 (age 51) |
| Political party |  German:Christian Social Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer (born 15 December 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Social Union (CSU) who has been a member of the GermanBundestag since 2002. In 2022, he briefly served as the Secretary General of the CSU, under the leadership of the party's chairmanMarkus Söder.[1][2]
Mayer was born inBurghausen (Bavaria). In 1993, after leaving school, he attendedLudwig-Maximilian University inMunich to study law. He graduated in 1997 after passing the first state examination in Law. In 2000 he passed the second state examination and since 2009 has worked as a lawyer for the Nachmann Vilgertshofer Scharf Barfuß Rechtsanwalts GmbH in Munich.
From 1994 to 2003, Mayer was chairman of the Regional Association of the youth organisationJunge Union inAltötting. Since 1997 he has been a deputy chairman of the CSU district association Altötting and to the council of the CSU Upper Bavaria district, led byIlse Aigner. Since 2006, Mayer has been a Deputy Regional Chairman of the Union of Expellees (Union der Vertriebenen (UdV)), and since 2009 a member of the CSU leadership under party chairmanHorst Seehofer.
Since the2002 elections, Mayer has been a member of theBundestag. In the 2009 elections, he received 60.7 percent of the primary votes and thus achieved the third best result in Germany.
In the Bundestag, Mayer was a full member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and of the Sports Committee. In that capacity, he was his parliamentary group'srapporteur onprivacy law. He was a member of theParliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr) that provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence services. He chairs the so-called G10 Commission, which takes decisions on the necessity and admissibility of restrictions on the privacy of correspondence, posts and telecommunications pursuant to Article 10 of theBasic Law. He was an alternate member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development and of the NSA Investigation Committee. Within the group of CSU parliamentarians, Mayer chaired the Working Group for Internal Affairs, law, sport, voluntary work, culture and media of the CSU.
In addition to his committee assignments, Mayer served as chairman of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In the negotiations to form acoalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2009 federal elections, Mayer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byWolfgang Schäuble andSabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. Later, in the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and theSocial Democrats (SPD) following the2013 federal elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on integration and migration, led byMaria Böhmer andAydan Özoğuz.
In February 2016, Mayer accompanied the president of the German BundestagNorbert Lammert on a visit to theZaatari refugee camp inJordan to learn more about the plight ofSyrians fleeing theSyrian civil war.[3]
In thefourth government underChancellorAngela Merkel, Mayer served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior underHorst Seehofer from 2018 to 2021.[4]
Since the2021 elections, Mayer has been serving as his parliamentary group's spokesperson for sports.[5][6]
In November 2021, a search committee under the leadership of formerPresident of GermanyChristian Wulff recommended Mayer as candidate to succeedAlfons Hörmann as president of theGerman Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB); instead Mayer later announced his candidacy as vice-president under the leadership ofThomas Weikert but had to resign shortly after when it was found that the role was incompatible with the German government's cooling-off period for former cabinet members.[7]
From 2010 until 2018, Mayer served as the president of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (Technisches Hilfswerk-Bundesvereinigung e.V.) and president of the Federal Civil Defence and Protection against disasters in Federal Republic of Germany.
Following the2016 Munich shooting, Mayer called for a review of Germany's gun laws and for stricter enforcement, arguing that "I support stricter regulations on the weapons trade and the creation of a European weapons registry modeled on the German national registry."[11]
In early 2017, Mayer and his colleagueArmin Schuster of the CDU presented a joint proposal for a flexible target for how many asylum seekers Germany should accept each year as a compromise to end a row between CDU and CSU over immigration. In a letter to the two parties’ chairpersons,ChancellorAngela Merkel andMinister-PresidentHorst Seehofer, they called for Germany to set a new target each year based on the humanitarian situation in crisis zones worldwide and on Germany's ability to absorb newcomers.[12]
In June 2017, Mayer voted against Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[13]
