Peter Tauber

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Peter Tauber (2014)

Peter Michael Tauber (born August 22, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian and politician ( CDU ). He is a member of the German Bundestag and was Secretary General of the CDU from December 16, 2013 to February 2018 . In the Merkel IV cabinet , he has been Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense since March 14, 2018 .

Life

education and profession

Video presentation (2014)

The grandson of the pharmacist Gustav Tauber passed the Abitur in 1994 at the Grimmelshausen Gymnasium in Gelnhausen . At this school he attended the same class as the (later) politician Mariana Harder-Kühnel . From the winter semester 1994/1995 he studied Medieval and Modern History, German Studies and Political Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . After an interruption due to military service - he held the rank of first lieutenant in the reserve from 2011-2019 and was promoted to captain of the reserve in July 2019 - he resumed his studies in the 1996 summer semester. In 2000 he completed his studies with the academic degree Magister Artium and with distinction. In 2007 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the social position and ideological functionalization of sport in the First World War and the tradition of these experiences in the Weimar Republic .

From 2000 to 2001 Tauber was a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center / FK 435 “Knowledge Culture and Social Change” at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. From 2001 to 2003 he was the state manager of the Junge Union Hessen and from 2003 to 2004 personal advisor to the Hessen minister of education and deputy prime minister Karin Wolff . From 2004 to 2007 he completed his doctorate with Lothar Gall at the history seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University with a scholarship from the Hanns Seidel Foundation . Until the 2009 federal election he was press spokesman for Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG in Frankfurt am Main. Since March 2008 he has been a lecturer at the history seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2018 Tauber passed the hunter examination in Hessen .

Political offices

Tauber joined the Junge Union in 1991 and the CDU in 1992. From 1993 to 2007 he was a city councilor in Wächtersbach . Since November 2005 he has been a member of the district council of the Main-Kinzig district . In 2007 he was elected as an assessor in the district board of the Mittelstandsvereinigung Osthessen and in December 2007 as chairman of the CDU Gelnhausen . In May 2003 he was elected regional chairman of the Junge Union Hessen. In addition, Tauber has been an elected member of the CDU Hessen's state board since 2008 .

In 2008 Tauber was nominated for the first time by the CDU for candidacy in the federal constituency 180 (Hanau) . In the 2009 federal election he received 39.4 percent of the vote; Sascha Raabe (SPD) received 34.0 percent. In the 2013 federal election he won the mandate in the newly created constituency 175 (Main-Kinzig - Wetterau II - Schotten) with 48.8 percent of the vote. In December 2013 he was initially provisionally appointed General Secretary by the CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel and was elected on April 5, 2014 by the CDU federal party conference.

Tauber is a full member of the Bundestag committee for family, senior citizens, women and youth and a deputy member of the “Digital Agenda” committee . In the 17th electoral term of the German Bundestag he was a member of the Enquête Commission " Internet and Digital Society ". On December 13, 2013 he was elected to the board of the German Children's Fund .

At the end of December 2017, he made his bowel disease diverticulitis public in an interview . Tauber was in the hospital for over a month and survived an emergency operation for blood poisoning and peritonitis . Michael Grosse-Brömer as the first parliamentary manager of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group represented him.

On February 18, 2018 it was announced that Tauber would resign from the position of CDU General Secretary. With the election of his successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , his term of office ended on February 26, 2018.

In Merkel IV's cabinet , Tauber is Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense .

Political positions

Network policy

On March 29, 2012, Tauber and Thomas Jarzombek became the founding chairman of cnetz - Association for Network Policy . The aim of the association is a “civic and responsible network policy that creates a fair balance between the different interests in a pluralistic society also on the Internet”. On January 17, 2014, he handed over the office of cnetz chairman to Jörg Müller-Lietzkow . In April 2013, Peter Tauber was the first member of the Bundestag to publish a social media guide.

Tauber voted as one of two union members in March 2013 against the controversial ancillary rights on the Internet. He also calls for the appointment of a Minister of State for the Internet and the Digital Society as well as greater citizen participation through the Internet.

Contrary to the party line, Tauber also rejected data retention , but changed his mind in 2015 and advocated its introduction.

Abortion and Biopolitics

According to the evangelical news agency idea , during his time as chairman of the Junge Union Hessen, Tauber “repeatedly advocated tightening the abortion paragraph 218”. In fact, in 2006 Tauber had expressed benevolence in the press about a decision (later withdrawn) in which the JU regional committee, of which he was chairman, demanded that abortions only be allowed with impunity after rape or if the woman was permanently at risk from pregnancy to let. In December 2013 there were therefore media reports and the allegation by the Alliance for Sexual Self-Determination , which called for the abortion paragraph § 218 to be deleted from the Criminal Code , that Tauber was "apparently on the right-wing conservative, fundamentalist-religious fringes of society when it comes to questions about sexual self-determination. “In January 2014, Tauber spoke out in favor of maintaining the current legal regulations, but pleaded for an extensive discussion on“ protecting life ”in society.

In 2011, in the run-up to the Bundestag resolution on pre- implantation diagnostics (PGD) , he spoke out against PGD and justified this with the fact that he believed that Christian and Jewish influence was still valid and that “only God can control life and not people ". Tauber also speaks out against any form of euthanasia .

Social policy

In 2011 Tauber spoke out in favor of making the federal voluntary service “more attractive” for recipients of unemployment benefit II . Together with Carsten Linnemann , he advocated raising the tax exemption for the associated income from 60 to 175 euros per month. Both referred to an expert opinion by the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag . The background to this is that the Federal Voluntary Service was missing 12,000 participants at the time when compulsory military service and community service ceased to exist. At the same time, there was a wave of recruits from the Bundeswehr dismissed. The Federal Voluntary Service could be “a real opportunity” for older unemployed people, and - unlike the Voluntary Social Year - it was open to people of all ages.

immigration

In January 2015, Tauber opened a debate on reforming Germany's immigration policy. The immigration law created by the red-green coalition in 2005 should be reformed for this purpose. The focus is on the integration of new immigrants into German society and the acquisition of German citizenship. It should be legally defined which skills, which education and which willingness to stand up for Germany immigrants must bring with them in order to become Germans.

Tauber took up the results of the so-called Süssmuth Commission from 2001, the full implementation of which had failed due to the CDU / CSU. Tauber's suggestions were not included in the CDU's program either. In December 2015, the party congress of the CDU in Germany only decided to bundle the existing legal regulations in an immigration law .

Party reform

In 2015, Tauber headed the party reform commission Meine CDU 2017 , which was set up by the CDU presidium . With the help of a number of reform measures such as the nationwide appointment of member representatives, the right to apply for members at state and federal party conferences and a reorganization of the admission procedure, the CDU wants to secure its status as a member party in the future. The CDU party congress in Karlsruhe in 2015 decided to amend the statute, among other things.

Controversy

Allegation of bullying

In September 2016, allegations became public that Tauber had been involved in the bullying against Anne Höhne-Weigl, who was managing director in the CDU district association Main-Kinzig from 1999 to 2014 . Tauber is a member of this district association and chaired it from 2011 to 2014. There is an eight-page text from 2006 under the heading Operation Rabbit Hunt (and a cover sheet with the title Care Instructions for the Rabbit ) in which a detailed plan is drawn up, Höhne-Weigel, for example, threatening to terminate her daughter in order to consent to a termination agreement to urge. On September 28, 2016, Tauber stated that from his current point of view it was a mistake not to have done anything against this document, but denied having been involved in the constitution. At the party conference of the CDU district association Main-Kinzig on September 30, 2016, Tauber briefly commented on the allegations as part of his 15-minute speech.

Sexism debate

Shortly after Tauber had to face bullying allegations in 2016, his name was directly associated with the sexism debate that was emerging within the CDU at the time. Jenna Behrends , a young politician who was rather unknown at the time, initiated a sexism debate that caused a sensation nationwide. In addition to Frank Henkel , Peter Tauber also appeared in an explicitly named group of people . According to several CDU members, this is said to have had an affair with Behrends. Both Tauber's abuse of power in his former office as CDU general secretary and Behrend's professional advantage were discussed here. Later both Tauber “purely amicable” and Behrends “had no affair, relationship or the like. with Tauber ”ended the public discussion about this.

In addition, Tauber emails from 2012 were charged in which he at least did not denounce sexist statements by his party colleagues, but in some cases also replied. At that time Tauber had a conversation with several male party members about which women within the CDU should be promoted and given priority in order to increase the proportion of women in leadership positions. At that time, Tauber was CDU chairman in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district .

Statements about mini jobbers

In a tweet in response to a question from another user on July 3, 2017, Tauber made disparaging comments about mini-jobbers . The trigger was a response from that other user to a tweet from Tauber about full employment, in which the latter asked whether that would mean for him to be dependent on several mini-jobs in the future. Tauber replied to the mini-job question that someone who had "learned something properly" did not need to take mini-jobs. The tweet caused outrage from other Twitter users and criticism from unions , politicians from other parties and the media.

The tweet sparked debates about the training situation. After the federal elections in September 2017, the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg asked Tauber to resign because, among other things, he had damaged the party with this statement and thus contributed to the poor performance of the CDU in the federal elections.

Walter Lübcke dies

In response to the death of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke in 2019, whom Tauber knew personally, he called for certain basic rights to be withdrawn from enemies of the Constitution in accordance with Article 18 of the Basic Law . He also accused the former CDU member of the Bundestag, Erika Steinbach , of promoting Lübcke's alleged murder through tweets that were spread in right-wing extremist circles. Tauber advised Steinbach on the use of Twitter in his first legislative period.

Memberships

Peter Tauber is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process. For the 13th Synod of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck he was appointed as a full member from 2016. He is also a member of the CDU-affiliated organization Christian Democrats for Life .

Fonts

  • The Grimmelshausenschule. The history of today's Grimmelshausen-Gymnasium Gelnhausen from its foundation as a secondary school in 1909 until today. Self-published, Wächtersbach 1997
  • How it was back then. Views of Aufenau, Hesseldorf, Leisenwald, Neudorf, Waldensberg, Weilers, Wächtersbach and Wittgenborn. Verlag der Buchhandlung Dichtung und Truth, Wächtersbach 2000, ISBN 3-9805957-2-2 .
  • "Time has put on seven-league boots." Wächtersbach between traditional and modern. Verlag der Buchhandlung Dichtung und Truth, Wächtersbach 2001, ISBN 3-9805957-4-9 .
  • 100 years of the cycling club 02 Wächtersbach: "... loyal to our sport!" The chronicle of the cycling club 1902 Wächtersbach e. V. Verlag der Buchhandlung Dichtung und Truth, Wächtersbach 2002, ISBN 3-9805957-3-0 .
  • as editor: Lice hunt and pipe crook. Willi Löwer, on the front lines of the Second World War. Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-4037-6 .
  • From the trench to the green lawn. The First World War and the development of sport in Germany (= studies on the history of sport. Volume 3). LIT, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0675-0 (also: Diss., Univ., Frankfurt am Main 2007).
  • You don't have to be a hero: top politician, marathon runner, but not invulnerable , bene !, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-96340-112-1 .

Web links

Commons : Peter Tauber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the CDU. ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: cdu.de , accessed on January 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ hessischerrundfunk: Beer Pong for the 2017 federal election - with Mariana Harder-Kühnel (AfD) # btw17. August 29, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter Tauber's biography. In: petertauber.de , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  4. ^ Margarethe van Ackeren: Peter Tauber. "General" as first lieutenant. In: Focus . August 13, 2016, p. 16.
  5. ↑ @petertauber: I'll report to you with a new rank. #hauptmann #wirdienendeutschland # machwasrealcounts #dsk. In: Instagram. July 8, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Peter Tauber passes the “Green Abitur”. In: Fulda newspaper. September 7, 2018, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Tauber is the new CDU General Secretary. In: FAZ.net . 5th April 2014.
  8. ↑ Functions and offices. In: petertauber.de , accessed on December 31, 2017.
  9. ↑ Hanns Szczepanek: “I can't avoid surgery”: CDU General Secretary Tauber was ill for weeks. In: Fulda newspaper . December 21, 2017, accessed December 31, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Peter Tauber on his illness: "The doctors saved my life" , Spiegel Online , March 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ FAZ.net February 18, 2018: In the end, he lacked authority
  12. ↑ CDU: Peter Tauber gives up post as general secretary. ZEIT ONLINE , February 18, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  13. ↑ CDU General Secretary: Tauber wants to withdraw. tagesschau.de, February 18, 2018, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kramp-Karrenbauer is to become General Secretary. tagesschau.de, February 19, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Ex-CDU General Secretary Tauber goes to von der Leyen , tagesschau.de of March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018.
  16. ↑ A "CNetz" Civil Internet Policy. In: Heise online . April 2, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  17. ^ "Continuity and change at the top of the cnetz eV" Retrieved on March 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ Sachar Kriwoj: Free download: Peter Tauber publishes social media guidelines. In: UdL Digital. The E-Plus Group's digital public affairs blog. April 8, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  19. ^ Severin Weiland, Fabian Reinbold: New CDU General Secretary Tauber: Peter who? In: Spiegel Online . December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  20. ↑ Peter Tauber: Our future is networked - 10 facts about network policy. ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Blog Schwarzer Peter , September 9, 2013. Retrieved on December 21, 2013.
  21. ↑ The new CDU general gives the boys a voice. In: The world . December 15, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  22. ↑ netzpolitik.org
  23. ↑ Peter Tauber: I am a “believing Christian”. In: idea.de , December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  24. ↑ Junge Union Hessen: Paragraph 218 must be tightened. In: kath.net . November 22, 2006; Trend-setting decision. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: BV-Lebensrecht.de , November 27, 2006.
  25. ↑ Annett Meiritz: Tauber comes under pressure because of his attitude to abortion. In: Spiegel Online. December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
  26. ^ New CDU general secretary against the right to sexual self-determination. In: Sexuelle-Selbstbestaltung.de , December 18, 2013.
  27. ↑ Robin Alexander and Ulf Poschardt: We also have to find out what doesn't suit us. In: The world. January 11, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  28. ↑ Peter Tauber: PGD ​​violates human dignity. In: Stoppt-PID-und-Klonen.de , 2011. Retrieved on December 26, 2013.
  29. ↑ Interview by CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber with “Die Welt” . CDU, press release, January 11, 2014.
  30. ↑ Unemployed: CDU wants to make social engagement more attractive. In: Spiegel Online. July 21, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  31. ^ Tauber demands immigration law . In: Süddeutsche.de , January 8, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  32. ↑ Peter Tauber wants a new immigration law . In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 8, 2015. Accessed April 23, 2016.
  33. ↑ CDU for immigration law after 2017 - change of course with start-up . In: Tagesschau.de , September 14, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  34. ↑ Decision of the 28th party congress on 14./15. December 2015. In: Strengthening Cohesion - Shaping the Future of Civil Society. P. 8. Accessed April 23, 2016.
  35. ↑ Jan Schoofs: "My CDU 2017" - After the party reform is before the party reform. In: karl-rudolf-korte.de. December 17, 2015, accessed April 22, 2016 .
  36. ↑ Motions and resolutions of the CDU federal party conference 2015. In: cdu.de , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  37. ^ Allegations of bullying against Tauber. ( Memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hessenschau . September 28, 2016 (video).
  38. ↑ New allegations against the CDU General Secretary: Tauber employee is said to have been overheard. ( Memento from October 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hessenschau. 29th September 2016.
  39. ↑ Instructions for "Operation Rabbit Hunt". In: GNZ.de , September 23, 2016.
  40. ^ "Care instructions for the rabbit": Tauber is said to have bullied a politician. In: n-tv .de , September 29, 2016.
  41. ↑ Hannelore Crolly: Tauber breaks his silence - a little bit. In: Die Welt Online. October 1, 2016.
  42. ↑ Jenna Behrends - the offensive one. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Dinah Riese: Peter Tauber and the allegations of sexism: "Purely optically a gain" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 27, 2016, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 4, 2019]).
  44. ↑ a b Twitter: Peter Tauber makes a huge mistake . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 9, 2017]).
  45. ↑ Jens Tönnesmann: Peter Tauber: Three mini jobs? Forget it! In: The time . July 5, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed July 9, 2017]).
  46. ↑ CDU General Secretary: Tauber triggers Shitstorm with an arrogant tweet. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
  47. ↑ "If you have learned something properly, you don't need three mini-jobs" . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on July 9, 2017]).
  48. ↑ After the unsuccessful tweet from Peter Tauber (CDU): "Learn something neat!" But what? - Four theses on the insecure training situation | News4teachers. Retrieved on July 9, 2017 (German).
  49. ↑ The day with Thea Dorn - full employment more important than justice? In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on July 9, 2017]).
  50. ↑ Guest contribution to the mini-job debate: "Peter Tauber is completely wrong" . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed July 9, 2017]).
  51. ↑ Many mini-jobbers with training . In: CORRECTIV . July 4, 2017 ( correctiv.org [accessed July 9, 2017]).
  52. ↑ FOCUS Online: Peter Tauber: Junge Union Association calls for resignation from the CDU General Secretary . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed December 31, 2017]).
  53. ↑ Peter Tauber: The enemy is on the right. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  54. ↑ "Erika, you are trapped in a right-wing extremist echo chamber". Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
  55. ^ Peter Tauber website of the Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tauber, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tauber, Peter Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main