Peter Rauen

Peter Rauen

Peter Rauen (born January 26, 1945 in Salmrohr ) is a former German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the German Bundestag and a member of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate .

Life and work

After attending high school graduated Rauen first a bricklayer and then visited the Berufsaufbauschule and the University of Applied Sciences , which he called diploma - engineer left (FH). From 1967 to 2003 he worked as a self-employed building contractor and managing director of Bau- GmbH Peter Rauen . He has been involved in Bau GmbH Peter Rauen since 2003 and is also general partner of Peter Rauen KG .

Peter Rauen is married and has two children.

Political party

Rauen joined the CDU in 1966. From 1985 to 1991 he was chairman of the CDU district association Bernkastel-Wittlich and from 1991 to 2005 chairman of the CDU district association Trier . He has been a member of the CDU Federal Executive Committee since 1992 and was also a member of the CDU Presidium from 1998 to 2002 .

From 1997 to 2005 he was federal chairman of the medium-sized and business association of the CDU / CSU .

In 2004, Rauen challenged state chairman Christoph Böhr to a member survey about the CDU's top candidate for the 2006 state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate. However, he could not unite the majority of the CDU members behind him, and so he withdrew his candidacy a few days before the state party conference of the CDU in favor of Christoph Böhr.

MP

Rauen belonged to the local council of Salmtal and the Verbandsgemeinderat of the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land from 1974 to 1983 and was a member of the district council of Bernkastel-Wittlich from 1979 to 1991 .

From 1983 to 1987 he was a member of the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.

From 1987 to 2009 Rauen was a member of the German Bundestag and from 2000 to 2002 he was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . He was initially chairman from 2002 to 2005 and has been deputy chairman of the sports committee since 2005 . Peter Rauen has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Bitburg constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 49.0% of the first votes .

On December 17, 2004, the Saarbrücker Zeitung reported that, according to a letter from Peter Rauen and Peter Danckert (SPD) , every member of the Bundestag could purchase two tickets for matches in the 2006 World Cup . The organizing committee gives this possibility to every parliamentarian allegedly at the request of the sports committee, of which Rauen and Danckert were chairman or vice chairman at the time. The organizing committee denied the report and stated that there were no ticket reservations for parliamentarians, but admitted agreements with the sports committee to “collect and check ticket requests”.

Social Commitment

From 1971 to 1999 Peter Rauen was president of the football club FSV Salmrohr , for which he himself was active as a footballer until the beginning of the 1980s . In the 1985/1986 season, the club was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga under Rauen's presidency . From 1999 to 2001 he was President at Eintracht Trier .

Others

Between 2001 and the beginning of 2008, Peter Rauen was convicted nine times by courts of major violations of speed limits in road traffic . The court hearings came about because Rauen regularly objected to the fines that had been issued to him and filed a lawsuit against it. Rauen had to pay fines between 50 and 1,000 euros. He was banned from driving four times.

Due to the frequent legal violations, he has now collected a high number of points in the German central traffic register . The member of the Bundestag does not announce the exact number. However, a spokeswoman for the municipality in which he is registered has announced that he is threatened with withdrawal of his driver's license. According to research by the newspaper Express , Rauen accumulated a total of 23 points from the eight convictions. The only reason that his driving license has not been withdrawn from him is that he received 6 points waived in March 2006 after an “advanced seminar” and “voluntary traffic psychological advice”.

During the speeding violation, which received the greatest public attention, Rauen drove 31 km / h too fast on the 565 motorway near Bonn in September 2005. In court, he wanted to avert the withdrawal of his driver's license by claiming that he had not driven too fast, that the radar measurement had been falsified by a so-called "triple phenomenon" from a van on the oncoming lane, and that it was not him, but his son the vehicle was driven. Rauen's son had even confirmed in writing that he had driven the vehicle that day, but then refused to testify as a witness in court. After obtaining expert opinions, the court found in its judgment in January 2007 that the radar device had measured correctly. In addition, the radar photo clearly identified Peter Rauen as the driver. The public prosecutor's office in Bonn then initiated an investigation into false suspicion. The case was dropped five months after the politician was willing to pay a "premium" of 2,000 euros.

The Bernkastel-Wittlich district administration, headed by a CDU district administrator, then filed a complaint against the judge because she asked during the hearing whether Rauen's traffic point account was being kept correctly in view of the violations that had been collected. The Ministry of Transport in Mainz then requested the file in order to examine the activities of the district administration as part of the technical supervision for a favored politician. The ministry found "individual procedural defects" about which it did not want to provide any further information for reasons of data protection.

In January 2008, Rauen was sentenced again to a one-month driving ban for a speeding violation that he committed on January 24, 2007, in close proximity to the previous court hearing. Rauen had again questioned the measurement and described the device as “out of date”, whereupon the correct measurement was confirmed by an expert report. He hired the Vice President of the German Traffic Court as a lawyer, who delayed the hearing from June 2007 to January 2008. In its reasoning, the court emphasized that Rauen was guilty of a “gross and persistent violation” of his duties as a driver, even though he was a “role model” as a member of the Bundestag: “The impression should not arise that these people are being treated better than everyone else Road users. ”Rauen has again lodged a legal complaint against the judgment, so that the validity of the judgment will be delayed until in March 2008 three traffic points from 2003 are no longer applicable.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football: Fuss about the right of first refusal for politicians on World Cup tickets. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 17, 2004
2. ↑ Rauen flashes in court Rhein-Zeitung , January 16, 2007
3. ↑ http://www.express.de/servlet/Satellite?pagename=express/index&pageid=1006361736814&rubrikid=268&ressortid=100&articleid=1166031546594 (link not available)
4. ↑ http://www.express.de/servlet/Satellite?pagename=express/index&pageid=1004979499231&rubrikid=222&ressortid=104&articleid=1157456890475 (link not available)
5. ↑ CDU politician gives son as speed sinner to Focus Online , September 11, 2006
6. ↑ Public prosecutors are now examining the case of MP Rauen General-Anzeiger , September 14, 2006
7. ↑ A flash of serious consequences: Der raging MP Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 14, 2007
8. ↑ http://www.mwvlw.rlp.de/internet/sub/9be/9be5d221-7487-1113-3e2d-ce3742f22936,,,aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-bbbb-000000000008.htm (link not available)
9. ↑ Memo for Raser Rauen: Driving ban , Rhein-Zeitung , January 10, 2008
10. ↑ MPs again too fast: Bundestag speedster has to hand in his driving license ( memento from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), picture , January 10, 2008
11. ↑ Temposünder Rauen files an appeal against the judgment , Rhein-Zeitung , January 21, 2008

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag