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Wolfgang Bosbach | |
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 Bosbach in 2012 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 1994–2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1952-06-11)11 June 1952 (age 73) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Children | 3, includingCaroline |
| Alma mater | University of Cologne |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | wobo |
Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm Bosbach (born 11 June 1952) is a German politician and member of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU), which he joined in 1972. A lawyer by profession, Bosbach is working at the law firm Winter Rechtsanwälte inBergisch Gladbach.[1]
Bosbach was a directly elected member of theBundestag from 1994 until 2017, representingRheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, and the deputyparliamentary group leader of his party from 2000 until 2009. From 1994 until 2002 and from 2009 until 2017, he served on the Committee on Internal Affairs.
Following the2013 federal elections, Bosbach was part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement.
In August 2016 Bosbach announced that he would not stand in the2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term due to his deteriorating health.[2] That same month, he agreed to serve as columnist for GermantabloidBild from 2017 on.[3]
In 2017,Minister-PresidentArmin Laschet ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia appointed Bosbach as chair of a commission to advise the state government on criminal justice reforms.[4]
Ahead of the2021 Rhineland-Palatinate state election, CDU candidateChristian Baldauf included Bosbach in hisshadow cabinet for the party's campaign to unseat incumbentMalu Dreyer asMinister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.[5]
In August 2011, Bosbach became the first senior CDU MP to say he would not vote for legal changes to allow theEuropean Financial Stability Facility to buy sovereign bonds on the market.[6] He later criticized the permanent rescue mechanism – calledEuropean Stability Mechanism – was a step toward a European transfer union.[7] In 2012, he told German business magazineWirtschaftswoche that Greece should leave the euro region to overhaul its economy.[8]
On 27 February 2015 Bosbach voted against theMerkel government's proposal for a four-month extension of Greece's bailout; in doing so, he joined a record number of 29 dissenters from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group who expressed skepticism about whether the Greek government underPrime MinisterAlexis Tsipras could be trusted to deliver on its reform pledges.[9] On 17 July he voted against the government's proposal to negotiate a third bailout for Greece;[10] in response to the resulting discussions with fellow conservative MPs, he resigned from his office as Chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs.
In 2013, Bosbach rejected calls to grant Muslims living in Germany two days of official holiday a year to mark important religious festivals, saying there was "no Islamic tradition in Germany" and that religious holidays here reflected the country's Christian heritage.[11]
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