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]
Hesse or Hessia, officially the State of Hesse, is a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. With an area of 21,000 square kilometers and a population of just over six million it ranks seventh and fifth respectively among the sixteen German states. Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Germany's second-largest metropolitan area, is mainly located in Hesse.
The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north of Frankfurt. The tallest peak in the range is Großer Feldberg at 878 m; other notable peaks are Kleiner Feldberg and Altkönig.
Roland Koch is a German jurist and former conservative politician of the 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 Hesse, Germany. It consists of more than 29,000 inhabitants.
Hünstetten is a community 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 two main parties are the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
Tarek Mohammed Al-Wazir is a politician in the German Green Party. Since January 2014 he has been deputy to the Hessian prime minister Volker Bouffier, and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development. He is a member of the Landtag of Hesse and was co-chair of the Hessian Green Party.
The Landtag of Hesse is the Parliament of the State of Hesse in the Federal Republic of Germany. It convenes in the Stadtschloss, 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 §§ 75 to 99.
Volker Bouffier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Since 31 August 2010 he has been Minister President of the German state of Hesse. From 1 November 2014 until 31 October 2015 he was President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to the President of Germany. He has been chairman of CDU in Hesse since July 2010. From 1999 to 2010, he was minister of interior and sports in the state of Hesse. Bouffier is a lawyer by profession. Because of his participation in state government, he is the longest serving Member of the Bundesrat, representing Hesse since 1999.
Klaus-Peter Willsch is a German politician of the CDU party and member of the Bundestag, representing Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg.
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.
Nicola Beer is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
Rheingau-Taunus – Limburg is an electoral constituency represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 178. It is located in southwestern Hesse, comprising the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis district and the southwestern part of the Limburg-Weilburg district.
Ralf Jäger is a German politician. He is a member of the SPD. Since 2000 he is an MP of the Landtag, the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. Between 2010 and 2017 he served as Minister for Interior and Local Government of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the cabinet of Minister-President Hannelore Kraft. In 2014 he was chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers in Germany.
The 2018 Hessian state election was held on 28 October 2018 to elect the members of the Landtag of Hesse. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and The Greens led by Minister-President Volker Bouffier retained its majority by a slim margin of one seat.
The 2018 Christian Democratic Union leadership election took place during the party's 31st Congress in Hamburg at the Messehallen convention center on 7–8 December following Angela Merkel's decision in October 2018 not to stand for party leader at the 2018 party conference following the party's bad performance in the 2018 Hessian state election and the party's consistently low numbers in national polls.
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.
