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Peter Beuth (born 3 December 1967 in Cologne) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Beuth is an MP in the Landtag, the parliament of Hesse. Since 18 January 2014 he is State Minister of the Interior and for Sports in the government of Minister-President Volker Bouffier of Hesse. Before that he was Secretary General of CDU Hesse since 14 March 2009.
After high school diploma in 1988 in Taunusstein Beuth worked as an assistant for media planning. He studied law at University of Mainz completing his studies in 1997 with the first state examination, in 2001 with the second state examination. Since October 2003 to 2014 he worked as a lawyer.
Beuth joined the Junge Union (JU) in Oberhausen in 1983, in 1987 he was elected chairman of JU Hohenstein, 1989 county chairman of JU Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. 1994-1998 he was member of the JU board in the state of Hesse. In 1987 Beuth also joined the CDU in Hohenstein and was vice county chairman since the year of 2000. From 1993 to 2011 he was member of the county council (Kreistag) of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, since 2011 he is county councillor on a voluntary base. From 1997 to 2009 and 2011-2012 he was city councillor of the city of Taunusstein, 2004-2008 faction leader of CDU Taunusstein. In 2000 he also was elected county vice chairman of CDU Rheingau-Taunus. 2006-2014 he was in the Regionalversammlung Südhessen ("Regional Assembly Hesse South").
In the 1999 state elections, Beuth was elected MP of the Landtag of Hesse, working in several committees, such as Law Committee and Cultural Committee. Beuth also worked as a speaker for law policies and interior policies of the CDU faction in the Landtag. In March 2009 Beuth was elected Secretary General of the CDU Hesse under the leadership of party chairman Roland Koch. He was re-elected in 2012.
Beuth led Volker Bouffier's electoral campaign in Hesse in 2013 state elections which resulted in the CDU becoming the strongest political force in the state. He also led the coalition talks with the Green Party resulting in the first CDU-Green party coalition in a territorial state in Germany. [1]
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Beuth was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas.
Beuth was criticized by the opposition parties in the Landtag of Hesse in 2016 in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany as the tabloid Bild reported on confidential documents of the State Office of Criminal Investigation ("Landeskriminalamt", LKA) which showed that the police had not reported on relevant offenses of refugees. [2] [3]
Beuth is unusually strict in rejecting asylum applications, vetoing around 20% of applications approved by the Hardship Commission, while previous interior ministers Volker Bouffier und Boris Rhein vetoed around 1% and Joachim Herrmann in neighbouring Bavaria vetoed 2%. [4]
Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is part of the Darmstadt region; its main administrative seat is Bad Schwalbach. Outposted sections of the local administration are located in Idstein and Rüdesheim am Rhein.
Roland Koch is a German jurist and former conservative politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was the 7th Minister President of Hesse from 7 April 1999, immediately becoming the 53rd President of the Bundesrat, completing the term begun by his predecessor as Minister President, Hans Eichel, until his resignation on 31 August 2010. During his time in office, Koch was widely regarded as one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's main rivals within the CDU.
Taunusstein is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020).
Hohenstein is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.
The politics of Hesse takes place within a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, where the Federal Government of Germany exercises sovereign rights with certain powers reserved to the states of Germany including Hesse. The state has a multi-party system where, as in most other states of former Western Germany and the federal level, the three main parties are the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Tarek Mohammed Al-Wazir is a German politician of Alliance '90/The Greens who served as deputy to the Hessian Minister-President, and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development from 2014 to 2024. He is a member of the Landtag of Hesse and was co-chair of the Hessian Green Party.
The Landtag of Hesse is the unicameral parliament of the State of Hesse in the Federal Republic of Germany. It convenes in the Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden. As a legislature it is responsible for passing laws at the state level and enacting the budget. Its most important function is to elect and control the state government. The constitution of the State of Hesse describes the role of the Landtag in sections 75 to 99.
Volker Bouffier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister President of the German state of Hessen from 31 August 2010 to 31 May 2022. From 1 November 2014 until 31 October 2015 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany.
The village of Ramchied is a district of the town of Bad Schwalbach in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis region of the state of Hessen, Germany. It is also referred to as Bad Schwalbach - Ramschied.
The 2013 Hessian state election was held on 22 September 2013 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The election was held on the same day as the 2013 federal election. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Volker Bouffier was defeated. The FDP suffered major losses, exceeding the 5% electoral threshold by under 1,000 votes. After the election, the CDU formed a coalition with The Greens, and Bouffier continued in office.
The 2018 Hessian state election was held on 28 October 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens led by Minister-President Volker Bouffier.
Timon Gremmels is a German politician in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the State Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts in the government of Minister-President Boris Rhein of Hesse since 2024. From 2017 to 2023, he was a Member of the Bundestag for Kassel.
Thomas Schäfer was a German lawyer and politician for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He was Minister of Finance of Hesse between 2010 and 2020.
Michael Boddenberg is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister of Finance of Hesse since 3 April 2020.
The Third Bouffier cabinet was the state government of Hesse between 2019 and 2022, sworn in on 18 January 2019 after Volker Bouffier was elected as Minister-President of Hesse by the members of the Landtag of Hesse. It was the 22nd Cabinet of Hesse.
The Second Bouffier cabinet was the state government of Hesse between 2014 and 2019, sworn in on 18 January 2014 after Volker Bouffier was elected as Minister-President of Hesse by the members of the Landtag of Hesse. It was the 21st Cabinet of Hesse.
Boris Rhein is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as Minister-President of Hesse since 2022. He has been active in the politics of Hesse since the late 1990s. After being elected to the Landtag of Hesse in 1999, he served as the state's Minister for the Interior from 2010 until 2014 and as the Minister for Science and Art from 2014 to 2019. On 31 May 2022, he was elected to succeed Volker Bouffier as the Minister-President of Hesse. He led the CDU to a victory in the 2023 Hessian state election.
The first Rhein cabinet was the state government of Hesse from 31 May 2022, after Boris Rhein was elected as Minister-President of Hesse by the members of the Landtag of Hesse, until 18 January 2024. It was the 23rd Cabinet of Hesse, and was succeeded by the second Rhein cabinet.
Stefan Naas is a German politician from the Free Democratic Party. From 2009 to 2018 he served as mayor of the city of Steinbach (Taunus). He has been a member of the Landtag of Hesse since January 2019.
Rauenthal is a town in the Rheingau, in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, Germany. It became part of Eltville in 1977, then officially name Rauenthal (Rheingau). It is known for growing wine.
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