Peter Tauber | |
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 Tauber in 2014 | |
| Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence | |
| In office 14 March 2018 – 6 April 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Minister | Ursula von der Leyen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
| Preceded by | Ralf Brauksiepe |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Hitschler |
| General Secretary of theChristian Democratic Union | |
| In office 5 April 2014 – 26 February 2018 | |
| Leader | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Hermann Gröhe |
| Succeeded by | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
| Member of theBundestag forMain-Kinzig – Wetterau II – Schotten (Hanau; 2009–2013) | |
| In office 27 October 2009 – 7 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Sascha Raabe |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Viesehon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1974-08-22)22 August 1974 (age 51) |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater | Goethe University |
Peter Michael Tauber (born 22 August 1974) is a former German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of theBundestag from 2009 to 2021. From 16 December 2013 to 26 February 2018 he served as Secretary General of the CDU under the leadership of its chairwomanAngela Merkel.
After high school diploma in 1994 inGelnhausen Tauber studied Medieval and Modern History, German Philology, and Political Science at theGoethe University of Frankfurt.In 2000 he finished his studies as aMagister Artium with distinction.
From 2000 to 2001, Tauber was a research fellow at Goethe University. From 2001 to 2003 he was State General Manager of theJunge Union inHesse, since 2003 he was chairman of the Junge Union in Hesse. From 2003 to 2004 he was personal advisor of the Hessian Culture MinisterKarin Wolff in the state government ofMinister-PresidentRoland Koch. In 2007 he attained a doctorate withLothar Gall. On a scholarship ofHanns Seidel Foundation, he wrote his thesis about the social position and ideological functionalisation of sports in the GermanKaiserreich.
From 2008 until the federal elections in 2009 Tauber was press spokesman ofDeutsche Vermögensberatung. In 2008 he also became a lecturer at the history department of the Goethe University.[citation needed]
Tauber became a member of the Junge Union in 1991, and he joined the CDU in 1992. From 1993 to 2007 he was town councillor inWächtersbach. Since 2005 he also was a member of the county council (Kreistag) of theMain-Kinzig-Kreis. 2008 he was elected board member of CDU Hesse.
Tauber has been a member of the German Bundestag since the2009 federal elections. During his first term in parliament, he served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as well as on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on theFederal Volunteers Service, intergenerational justice andIntersex.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Tauber was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led byMichael Kretschmer andKlaus Wowereit.
On 16 December 2013, Tauber was appointed preliminarily as Secretary General of the CDU by the party's chairwomanAngela Merkel; he succeededHermann Gröhe, who had been appointed Health Minister after the elections. On 5 April 2014, he was formally elected on the CDU federal party convention, with a record result of 97 percent. Tauber stated after his election that the CDU needed more young people, more women and more migrants within its ranks.[1] During his time in office, he set up a commission tasked with drafting proposals for reforming the party between 2013 and 2017.[2]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government with theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), theFree Democratic Party (FDP) and theGreen Party following the2017 national elections, Tauber would have been part of the 19-member delegation of the CDU, had it not been for a serious illness withemergency surgery. In February 2018 he tendered his resignation as his party's Secretary General,[3] to be succeeded byAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Following the2017 elections, Tauber was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary at theFederal Ministry of Defence, under the leadership of ministerUrsula von der Leyen.
In October 2020, Tauber announced that he would not stand in the2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4] Due to illness, he resigned from his political offices in April and May 2021.[5]
In June 2021, Tauber was appointed head of communications ofEngelbert Strauss inBiebergemünd.[6]
Until 2013, Tauber was considered to be an opponent oftelecommunications data retention,[11][12] whereas the majority in his party wanted to introduce a new bill,[13] but this was impossible because from 2009 to 2013 the CDU was in coalition with theFDP, that was opposed to telecommunications data retention. But in December 2013 the CDU formed aGrand coalition with theSPD and Tauber had been nominated as general secretary of the CDU on 16 December 2013 and since January 2014 Tauber had changed his position and actively supported a new bill against a reluctant Minister of Justice from the SPD.[14] In October 2015 the bill was approved by theBundestag and in November 2015 by theBundesrat of Germany and is now law.
Operation Kaninchenjagd ("Operation rabbit hunting") is one of two titles of an anonymous paper[15] that became public in September 2016 and led to accusations against the politician Peter Tauber. It is alleged that Tauber – who was at that time member of theCDU and the (regional) chairman of theYoung Union inHesse – was involved in (attempted) bullying of another member and employee of theChristian Democratic Party.
In July 2017, Tauber argued that someone who has a proper education does not have to work as a so-calledmini jobber (marginal employment). This statement was criticized heavily by other politicians, the media andtrades unions. In Germany, millions of workers are dependent on this type of employment to make a living due toeconomic liberalization implemented a decade ago.[16][17][18][19]
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