Thomas Kreuzer (politician)

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Thomas Kreuzer

Thomas Kreuzer (born May 23, 1959 in Kempten (Allgäu) ) is a German politician ( CSU ). Since October 2013 he has been chairman of the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament , of which he has been a member since 1994.

biography

After attending the elementary school in Lauben , Kreuzer passed the Abitur at the Allgäu-Gymnasium Kempten in 1978. After completing his military service (later promoted to first lieutenant in the reserve ), he studied law at the University of Augsburg using the so-called single-stage model from 1979 . In 1986 he completed this with the second state examination. After his legal clerkship he was first a public prosecutor , then he became a judge at the Kempten Regional Court . He held this office until his election as a member of the state parliament.

Kreuzer joined the Junge Union in 1979 and was JU district chairman for two years. In 1980 he became a member of the CSU and has been chairman of the Kempten district association since 1993. Since 2001, he has also been the state chairman of the “Legal Working Group in the CSU”.

Kreuzer has been a member of the city ​​council in Kempten since 1984, of which he was elected as the youngest member at the age of 24. There he is chairman of the audit committee.

In October 1994, he moved into the Bavarian State Parliament as a directly elected member of the Kempten-Oberallgäu constituency . There he was a member of the Committee for Local Affairs and Internal Security , a member of the Council of Elders, a member of the Judges' Election Commission and chairman of the investigative committee “Game Meat and Consumer Protection”.

From February to December 2010, he chaired the Bavarian State Parliament's committee of inquiry into BayernLB's billions in losses , in particular through the purchase of the Austrian Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA); He presented the final report on February 10, 2011.

From October 2003 to 2011 he was deputy chairman of the CSU state parliamentary group, and since 2008 Parliamentary Managing Director of the CSU state parliament group. He has been a member of the party presidium since 2009. In March 2011 he became State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Culture , on November 4, 2011 State Minister and Head of the Bavarian State Chancellery . From November 17, 2011 until his election as chairman of the CSU parliamentary group, Kreuzer was chairman of the board at MedienCampus Bayern . Kreuzer was the initiator and founder of the MedienNetzwerk Bayern as the successor to the cluster for audiovisual media (CaM).

He is a member of the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , the Bavarian Judges' Association , several sports and shooting clubs, cultural and charitable associations and the Board of Directors of Sparkasse Allgäu. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the Kempten University of Applied Sciences and has been an honorary senator of the university since October 2018. Kreuzer has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Bavarian Media Education Foundation since 2012.

Kreuzer lives in Kempten, is Roman Catholic , divorced and father of a son.

Positions

In the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe , Kreuzer called for an upper limit for refugees in Germany. He also calls for better protection of the EU's external borders and increased aid for refugee camps around Syria. At the beginning of 2016 he called for a "cascade of border closings" from Macedonia via Serbia and Austria to the German border. Word of this would quickly get around among refugees as far as North Africa, so that they would not even set out on their way.

Award

In 2009, Kreuzer was honored by the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer with the Bavarian Order of Merit for his work as a member of the state parliament for Kempten and the Allgäu.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Kreuzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. City of Kempten (Allgäu), Office for Economy and Urban Development: City of Kempten - Citizen Information Portal. Retrieved on September 3, 2017 (German).
  2. The complicity of the CSU greats . Southgerman newspaper. February 9, 2015. Accessed October 1, 2015.
  3. Seehofer reshuffles his cabinet - Söder is the new finance minister . Hamburger Abendblatt. November 3, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  4. What is the Bavarian Media Network? . Media Network Bavaria. September 13, 2015. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  5. ^ Members of the Broadcasting Council. Bayerischer Rundfunk , accessed on May 23, 2014 .
  6. CSU parliamentary group leader calls for an upper limit for refugees in Germany . Augsburg General. September 23, 2015. Accessed October 15, 2015.
  7. "High time to pull the emergency brake" . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 20, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 20107.