Gunther Krichbaum

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Gunther Krichbaum

Gunther Krichbaum (born May 4, 1964 in Korntal ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Krichbaum has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 . Since 2007 he has been chairman of the committee for the affairs of the European Union of the German Bundestag .

Life and work

After graduating from the Solitude-Gymnasium in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf in 1984 , Krichbaum did his military service in Sigmaringen and Dillingen / Danube and, from 1985, studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg , the University of Lausanne and from the University of Geneva , which he completed in 1991 with the first state examination in law. Krichbaum received a scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . During his studies he became a member of the Ulmia Tübingen Landsmannschaft . After his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 1995 and then worked as an independent business consultant for MLP AG in Pforzheim until 2002 .

Krichbaum is a Protestant and has a second marriage. The Krichbaum couple each have three children from previous marriages.

politics

Krichbaum joined the Junge Union in 1979 and the CDU in 1983. From 1999 to 2009 he was deputy chairman of the CDU city association Pforzheim and has been district chairman of the CDU Enzkreis / Pforzheim since 2009. Krichbaum has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 and has been the deputy spokesman for European policy for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group since December 2005 . Since June 2007 he has been Chairman of the Committee on European Union Affairs .

Krichbaum has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Pforzheim constituency . In his first federal election in 2002 , he was able to win back the direct mandate for the CDU, which had been lost to the SPD in 1998, against the state chairman of the SPD Baden-Württemberg, Ute Vogt . He defended this in the 2005 Bundestag election with 46.9% and in the 2009 Bundestag election with 40.7% of the first votes . With 49.5% of the first votes in the 2013 federal election , he achieved the CDU's best result in this constituency since the 1983 federal election . In his fifth federal election in 2017 , he won the direct mandate again with 36.4% of the first votes.

The Queen of the Netherlands appointed Krichbaum Grand Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau , in 2009 he was appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor by the French President and in 2010 he was appointed Commander of the Star of Romania by the Romanian President . In 2012 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria .

Gunther Krichbaum has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Memberships

  • Atlantik-Brücke eV ,
  • Board of Directors of the Robert Schuman Foundation (Paris)
  • Executive Board of the European People's Party (EPP)
  • Federal Committee on Europe of the CDU Germany
  • Co-opted member of the Presidium of the Europa-Union Deutschland
  • Chairman of the Pforzheim / Enzkreis regional brass music association,
  • Chairman of the Friends of the Schiller-Gymnasium Pforzheim
  • Board of the Nordstadt Citizens' Association
  • Church synod of the Protestant Church in Pforzheim-Land
  • Board of Trustees and Friends of the Pforzheim University
  • German-Romanian Society Pforzheim / Enzkreis
  • Lebenshilfe eV
  • Praiseworthy Singer Society from 1501 Pforzheim
  • Carnival societies PFG and KGHO
  • Football club 1. CfR Pforzheim
  • Association of Old Men of the Coburg Convent

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunther Krichbaum's curriculum vitae. Retrieved on August 31, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Constituency results from 1982, csv, archive link ( memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Leonberger Kreiszeitung Germany: Bundestag election 2017 in the Enzkreis: The "big ones" have to give up - Leonberger Kreiszeitung. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Krichbaum, Gunther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Korntal