David McAllister

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David James McAllister [ ˈdeɪvɪd dʒeɪmz məˈkæləstə ] (born January 12, 1971 in West Berlin ) is a German CDU politician who also has British citizenship. From 2003 to 2010 he was chairman of the Lower Saxony CDU parliamentary group and from July 1, 2010 to February 19, 2013, as the successor to Christian Wulff , Prime Minister of Lower Saxony . From 2008 to 2016 he was chairman of the CDU Lower Saxony .

He has been a member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament since 2014 and has headed the Committee on Foreign Affairs there since 2017 . He is also Vice President of the European People's Party and the International Democratic Union .

McAllister was the first German Prime Minister with dual citizenship .

Career

Origin, education and professional career

David James McAllister was born on January 12, 1971 to a German and a British son. His father, James Buchanan McAllister, comes from Glasgow and had been a civil servant in the British Army during the Cold War at various offices in Germany since 1955 . He had previously served in the 51st (Highland) Division in the British Armed Forces during World War II . a. Also in Germany. His mother Mechthild was a German and singing teacher. David grew up with his two older sisters in a British settlement in the Charlottenburg district . He was raised bilingually in German and English and first attended a British elementary school .

After his parents had moved from Berlin to Bad Bederkesa in the Cuxhaven district in 1982 , he passed his Abitur in 1989 at the Lower Saxony boarding school there . From 1989 to 1991 he was a contract soldier in the Bundeswehr in the 74 tank battalion in Cuxhaven . His last rank was corporal . From 1991 to 1996 McAllister studied law at the University of Hanover with a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . In 1996 he passed the first state examination in law. After the legal traineeship, the second state examination followed in 1998. Then he became a lawyer .

Party career

David McAllister at the CDU federal party conference in December 2014

From 1991 to 1994 McAllister was district chairman of the Junge Union in the district of Cuxhaven. From August 2002 to August 2003 he was Secretary General of the CDU in Lower Saxony . McAllister increasingly tried to make a name for himself on the federal political stage. He became deputy chairman of the parliamentary group chairmen's conference of the CDU and CSU for two years and worked on the basic program of his party. In 2005, Angela Merkel wanted to make him General Secretary of the Federal CDU, which he refused.

At the state party conference of the CDU on June 14, 2008 in Celle , McAllister was elected with 98.9 percent as the new state chairman to succeed Christian Wulff . In this position he was confirmed on August 27, 2010 at the state party conference in Lingen with 97.0 percent and on October 12, 2012 at the state party conference in Celle with 98.2 percent. Bernd Althusmann was elected as his successor at the state party conference on November 26, 2016 .

McAllister declared that he would run for the first place on the Lower Saxony state list for the 2014 European elections. As the top candidate, he led the CDU in the election campaign and was elected member of the European Parliament.

In November 2014, McAllister was elected Vice President of the International Democratic Union in Seoul . He has also been Vice President of the European People's Party since October 22, 2015 .

Member of Parliament

David McAllister 2013 in the Lower Saxony state parliament

From 1996 to 2010 McAllister was a member of the Cuxhaven district assembly. From 1998 to 2014 he was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament . From February 4, 2003 until his election as Prime Minister on July 1, 2010, he held the office of CDU parliamentary group leader.

For the state election on January 27, 2008 , the CDU placed him in second place on the state list. In his constituency 57 (Hadeln-Wesermünde) , as in 2003, he won the direct mandate (52.64 percent of the first votes) by a large margin over the direct candidates of the other parties. In the state elections on January 20, 2013 , he achieved 64.4 percent in constituency 57 (Hadeln / Wesermünde) and thus again a direct mandate. Contrary to the national trend, he improved his personal result by around 12 percent. In contrast, the CDU's share of second votes in his constituency had only increased slightly from 48.3 to 48.8 percent in the previous state election. McAllister was also number 1 on his party's state list.

McAllister decided a few days after losing the state elections in 2013 not to take over the chairmanship of his state parliamentary group after his resignation as prime minister. The previous CDU parliamentary group leader Björn Thümler remained in office. From February 2013 to March 2014 McAllister sat as a simple member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. Then he left to devote himself fully to the European election campaign . Former minister Aygül Özkan replaced him in the state parliament.

McAllister has been a member of the European Parliament in the EPP Group since 2014 . In the eighth legislature (2014–2019) he was deputy chairman of the local CDU / CSU group and member of the committee for foreign affairs and deputy member in the sub-committee for security and defense as well as deputy member in the committee for constitutional questions . Since January 24, 2017 he has been chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

McAllister defended his mandate as Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European elections . He was also re-elected chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the ninth legislature of Parliament (2019-2024) . He is also a deputy member of the Committee on International Trade and the Subcommittee on Security and Defense for his group .

Public offices

State election in Lower Saxony 2013 with Stefan Birkner, David McAllister, Stephan Weil and Stefan Wenzel (from left to right)
Handover in the Lower Saxony State Chancellery : Christine Hawighorst and David McAllister, Stephan Weil and Jörg Mielke (from left to right)

From 2001 to 2002 McAllister was Mayor of Bad Bederkesa. On July 1, 2010, he was elected Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, succeeding Christian Wulff , who had been elected President by the 14th Federal Assembly the day before . In the regional elections on 20 January 2013 , the CDU remained under McAllister's lead with 36.0 percent of the strongest party, but the government camp of the CDU and FDP was subject to only one seat of the former opposition from SPD and Alliance 90 / The Greens . Stephan Weil of the SPD was elected Prime Minister as successor to McAllister on February 19, 2013.

Private

McAllister is of Protestant faith and since August 2003 with the lawyer Dunja McAllister, b. Kolleck, married. The couple have two daughters and live in Bad Bederkesa .

Awards

  • 2010: Great Cross of Merit of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
  • 2010: Niederrhein-Owl for political cleverness and wisdom
  • 2012: Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh University
  • 2014: Decoration of honor in gold of the district of Cuxhaven

See also

literature

  • Munzinger International Biographical Archive 40/2007 from October 6, 2007

Web links

Commons : David McAllister  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David McAllister. The Briton who is supposed to rule Hanover . Hannoversche Allgemeine. June 25, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ Could Germany be ruled by man named McAllister who got married in a kilt, supports Rangers ... and drinks Irn-Bru? ( English ) Mail Online. February 6, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ David McAllister . Leibniz University Hannover. September 3, 2012. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved on February 4, 2013.
  4. ↑ McAllister: CDU and FDP can also hold their own against three left opponents . Deutschlandfunk. January 31, 2008. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ David McAllister . WirtschaftsWoche. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  6. ↑ McAllister wants to replace Zivis with retirees . World online. November 12, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
  7. ↑ Martina Fietz: David McAllister: Wulffs Terrier attacks. In: Focus Online. June 4, 2010, accessed July 3, 2010 .
  8. ↑ David McAllister is the new CDU boss . Rheinische Post. June 14, 2008. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Lower Saxony: McAllister re-elected as CDU state chief . Mirror online. August 27, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ State election in Lower Saxony: CDU nominated McAllister . Mirror online. October 12, 2012. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
  11. ^ David McAllister: To achieve a lot for Lower Saxony in Brussels . CDU Lower Saxony. November 21, 2013. Archived from the original on December 7, 2014. Retrieved on December 4, 2014.
  12. ↑ McAllister leads CDU in EU election campaign . The world. September 26, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  13. ↑ McAllister elected Vice President of the IDU . politics & communication. November 24, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  14. ↑ CDU politician McAllister elected EPP vice-president . Focus Online. October 22, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
  15. ↑ "I could run up the walls" . The daily mirror. January 27, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  16. ↑ McAllister heads the Foreign Affairs Committee in the European Parliament . Image. January 24, 2017. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  17. ↑ Parliament's committees-elect chairs and vice-chairs | News | European Parliament. October 7, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Home | David McALLISTER | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
  19. ^ McAllister new Prime Minister in Lower Saxony . Rheinische Post. July 1, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  20. ^ Successor to McAllister: Because elected Prime Minister of Lower Saxony . Mirror online. February 19, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  21. ↑ Could Germany be ruled by man named McAllister who got married in a kilt, supports Rangers ... and drinks Irn-Bru? ( English ) Daily Mail. February 6, 2009. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
  22. ↑ a b MEPs: European Parliament - David McAllister / curriculum vitae. Retrieved May 26, 2019
  23. ^ Niederrhein-Eule goes to David McAllister , in: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 1, 2010, accessed on November 8, 2010
  24. ↑ McAllister receives an honorary Scottish doctorate. In: welt.de. June 16, 2012, accessed April 27, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME McAllister, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McAllister, David James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL, MdEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin (West)