Alexander Krauss

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Alexander Krauss (2020)

Alexander Gerd Krauss (born December 8, 1975 in Erlabrunn , Schwarzenberg district ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and political scientist . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 . Before that he was a member of the Saxon state parliament from 2004 to 2017 .

Life

Study and job

From 1982 Krauss went to the POS in Erlabrunn and from 1990 to the EOS Bertolt Brecht, today's Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium in Schwarzenberg , where he passed his Abitur in 1994 . After his military service with the Panzergrenadier Battalion in Marienberg , he studied political science, communication and media studies as well as Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig and in Prague from 1995 to 2000 and completed his studies with the academic degree Magister Artium (MA). From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a freelance journalist and from 2002 was a public relations employee for the Zwickau City Mission .

politics

Alexander Krauß (3 from right) in front of his citizens' office with Stanislaw Tillich , Günter Baumann Member of the Bundestag, District Administrator Frank Vogel and the Schwarzenberg Mayor Heidrun Hiemer (2009)

From 1990 to 2006 Krauss was chairman of the Junge Union in the Erzgebirgskreis . Member of the CDU since 1992, Krauß was a member of the Erlabrunn council from 1999 to 2005 and a member of the district council from 2004 to 2014. From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the Evangelical Working Group (EAK) of the CDU, in 2008 he became regional chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) and has been its deputy national chairman since 2011. Krauss has been chairman of the state health committee of the CDU Saxony since 2020 .

On September 19, 2004 he was elected as a direct candidate for the constituency Aue-Schwarzenberg II with 45.7% of the first votes in the Saxon state parliament, where he was a member of the committee for social affairs, health, family, Women and Youth and the Environment and Agriculture Committee. He was also a board member and youth policy spokesman for the CDU state parliamentary group as well as deputy chairman of the working group for social affairs, health, family, women and youth; later also chairman.

In the state elections on August 30, 2009 , Krauss successfully defended his direct mandate with 43.8% of the first votes. In the 5th electoral term, Krauss was a member of the Committee on Economics, Labor and Transport and the Committee on Social Affairs and Consumer Protection. During this electoral term he acted as chairman of the state youth welfare committee and of the parliamentary group for social affairs and consumer protection and advisory board of the Foundation Help for Family, Mother and Child .

The state election for the 6th electoral period in 2014 was confirmed by Krauss with 43.1% of the first votes in the new constituency of the Erzgebirge 3 . Since then Krauss has belonged to the same committees as in the previous electoral term. Until his resignation in December 2017, he was chairman of the working group for social affairs and consumer protection of the CDU parliamentary group and labor market policy spokesman.

For the 2017 federal election he was a direct candidate for the CDU in the Erzgebirgskreis I federal constituency (constituency no.164) and was directly elected.

In the 19th German Bundestag , Krauss is a full member of the Committee on Health and a member of the board of the workers' group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . For his group he is rapporteur for outpatient medical care and the disease management program.

Krauss belongs to the conservative wing of his party and is also part of the Christian-social wing of the CDU. In October 2017, he said that the CDU had to become more conservative.

Political opinions

During the debate about the new regulation of organ donation in Germany, Krauss advocated the so-called double contradiction solution, which ultimately did not find a majority in the German Bundestag. Krauss regretted this decision. Krauss also spoke out repeatedly against euthanasia. He emphasized that it was not the "task of the state to transport people directly or indirectly to the afterlife".

In the debate about the basic pension, which the CDU / CSU and SPD had agreed in the coalition agreement, Alexander Krauss advocated a solution without a means test. A means test punishes those who have made provisions for old age. Krauss also criticized the AfD several times for its aversion to foreign doctors. "Without foreign doctors, our health system would be at an end," said Krauss. The Health Committee of the German Bundestag held a hearing on February 12, 2020 on an application by the AfD parliamentary group on the suitability of foreign doctors. In February, after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's announced withdrawal, Krauss spoke out in favor of Jens Spahn as the new CDU boss and candidate for chancellor of the Union. "Jens Spahn did a great job as a minister and showed everyone that he can do it," said Krauss.

Krauss is also of the opinion that there is no third gender in everyday life. Current figures have shown that a third or even more gender "does not exist in real life," said Krauss of the French news agency AFP . In a response to a request from Krauss, the Federal Statistical Office reported that in 2018, out of around 878,500 live births, 15 babies were entered in the birth register without the information 'male' or 'female'; in 2017, the Federal Office registered 17 such births in In 2016 there were ten.

Others

Krauss has been married since May 2006 and has a son and two daughters. He is a member of the supervisory board of Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG and chairman of the advisory board of the Aphasia Center South-West Saxony. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of Diakonisches Werk Aue / Schwarzenberg e. V. and member of the Board of Trustees of the Erich Glowatzky Foundation. Krauss is also a member of the Europa-Union Deutschland .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Krauß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Direct candidate for the Bundestag election: Alexander Krauss enters the race for CDU , accessed on November 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ Saxony State Statistical Office , accessed on September 27, 2017
  3. ^ German Bundestag - Alexander Krauss. Retrieved August 30, 2019 .
  4. ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Matthias Meisner : In the CDU Saxony the frustration over Merkel discharges , Der Tagesspiegel from October 25, 2017
  6. ↑ Köpping (SPD) respects organ donation decision | Free press - Saxony. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Hajo Zenker: Suicide Drugs: A Judgment, a Minister and a Deadly Preparation. February 1, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  8. ^ Sven Günther: Alexander Krauss (Member of the Bundestag, CDU): Basic pension without examination! February 7, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Without foreign doctors, the healthcare system would collapse. February 12, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Kosfeld: German Bundestag - Foreign doctors in great demand. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  11. ^ Krauss for Spahn as candidate for chancellor. February 10, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Member of the Bundestag: There is no third gender. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  13. ↑ CDU MP denies intersexuality. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Alexander Gerd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH 8th December 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlabrunn