Peter Michael Tauber (born 22 August 1974) is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag 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 chairwoman Angela Merkel.
After high school diploma in 1994 in Gelnhausen Tauber studied Medieval and Modern History,German Philology,and Political Science at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. In 2000 he finished his studies as a Magister 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 the Junge Union in Hesse,since 2003 he was chairman of the Junge Union in Hesse. From 2003 to 2004 he was personal advisor of the Hessian Culture Minister Karin Wolff in the state government of Minister-PresidentRoland Koch. In 2007 he attained a doctorate with Lothar Gall. On a scholarship of Hanns Seidel Foundation,he wrote his thesis about the social position and ideological functionalisation of sports in the German Kaiserreich.
From 2008 until the federal elections in 2009 Tauber was press spokesman of Deutsche Vermögensberatung. In 2008 he also became a lecturer at the history department of the Goethe University.[citation needed]
Political career
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 in Wächtersbach. Since 2005 he also was a member of the county council (Kreistag) of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. 2008 he was elected board member of CDU Hesse.
Tauber has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 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 the Federal Volunteers Service,intergenerational justice and Intersex.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections,Tauber was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs,led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit.
Secretary General of the CDU,2013–2018
On 16 December 2013,Tauber was appointed preliminarily as Secretary General of the CDU by the party's chairwoman Angela Merkel;he succeeded Hermann 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 October 2020,Tauber announced that he would not stand in the 2021 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]
Until 2013,Tauber was considered to be an opponent of telecommunications 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 the FDP,that was opposed to telecommunications data retention. But in December 2013 the CDU formed a Grand coalition with the SPD 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 the Bundestag and in November 2015 by the Bundesrat 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 the CDU and the (regional) chairman of the Young Union in Hesse – was involved in (attempted) bullying of another member and employee of the Christian Democratic Party.
Insulting mini jobbers
In July 2017, Tauber argued that someone who has a proper education does not have to work as a so-called mini jobber (marginal employment). This statement was criticized heavily by other politicians, the media and trades unions. In Germany, millions of workers are dependent on this type of employment to make a living due to economic liberalization implemented a decade ago.[16][17][18][19]
↑ The paper consists of 8 pages with the title Operation Kaninchenjagd ("Operation rabbit hunting") and an additional cover page with the sole title Pflegehinweise für das Kaninchen ("Care instructions for the rabbit").
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