Wolfgang Bosbach

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Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm Bosbach [ ˈbɔsbaχ ] (born  June 11, 1952 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer . Bosbach was deputy chairman of the parliamentary group of the Union from February 2000 to November 2009 and chairman of the interior committee of the German parliament from November 2009 to July 2015 . On August 22, 2016, he announced that he no longer wanted to run for the Bundestag in 2017. At the end of the 18th electoral term on October 24, 2017, he ended his political work in the German Bundestag.

Life

education

After completing secondary school in 1968, Bosbach trained as a retail salesman at the Cologne consumer cooperative and was manager of a supermarket at COOP West from 1972 to 1974 . He then attended the Rheinische Akademie Cologne , which he graduated in 1977 as a state-certified business economist . On the second chance he got in 1979 at the Cologne College in Cologne-Deutz , the High School of. Bosbach then completed a law degree at the University of Cologne , which he completed in 1988 with the first state examination and in 1991 with the second state examination . Until his retirement he was admitted in addition to his parliamentary seat as a lawyer and also in this profession operates.

politics

Bosbach has been a member of the CDU since 1972 . From April 2003 to 2005 he was deputy state chairman of his party in North Rhine-Westphalia . Furthermore, he is a member of the Berlin Circle , an association of members of the CDU / CSU from the Bundestag and the state parliaments, who represent conservative, market-liberal positions and the move away from climate protection.

From 1975 to 1979 Bosbach was a member of the district council of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district and from 1979 to 1999 the council of his hometown Bergisch Gladbach .

In 1994 and 1998 he moved into the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis I and in 2002 and 2005 for the constituency of Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he achieved 49.3% of the first votes . In 2009 he won the direct mandate again with 50% of the votes in his constituency.

Despite his illness (see private information ), Bosbach ran again in the federal elections on September 22, 2013 and, with 58.5%, entered the German Bundestag for the sixth time as a directly elected member of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis constituency.

From February 2000 to November 2009 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag parliamentary group of the Union and therefore responsible within the parliamentary group for the areas of law, petition , domestic politics, sport, displaced persons and refugees, art, culture and the media. Since November 2009 he has been chairman of the parliamentary interior committee . On July 23, 2015, he resigned from this post with effect from September 22, as he would continue to follow his convictions and, deviating from the course of his party leaders, vote against further rescue packages for Greece, which is not compatible with the committee chairmanship. He wanted to keep his mandate in the Bundestag, however, because he could only campaign and fight for his political convictions in parliament.

In 2016, Bosbach declared that he wanted to withdraw from politics in autumn 2017. There are both political and personal reasons for this. On some important political issues, he could no longer represent the position of his party with the conviction that would be required if he were to run again for the Bundestag. He does not want to use the rest of his strength to "argue against my own party and to stand against my own party."

In the run-up to the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , Bosbach supported the election campaign of the CDU top candidate Armin Laschet as an expert on internal security. He told the press that in the event of a government takeover, he should head a commission to reorganize internal security (known as the Bosbach Commission) in North Rhine-Westphalia. However, he is not available for the office of interior minister.

In February 2020 it became known that Bosbach had filed a complaint against sports reporter Werner Hansch for incomplete repayment of a loan in the amount of 5000 euros. Bosbach was asked by Hansch for the money to settle an accident without the police, as Hansch is said to have drunk alcohol. The SPD demanded that Bosbach should explain to the Bosbach Commission the circumstances why he had loaned Hansch 5,000 euros.

Other engagement

Talk Shows

Bosbach is known for the fact that he liked to express his political opinion, which was often in opposition to the CDU-led federal government, on talk shows . Between 2012 and 2016, he was the politician who appeared on most talk shows. His early departure from the Maischberger show in July 2017 caused a stir when he left the show in protest due to the behavior and political opinion of Jutta Ditfurth . Bosbach announced that he would never again want to sit in a TV group with Ditfurth.

Private

Wolfgang Bosbach with his daughters Caroline and Viktoria at the Cologne Charity Sports Night on November 27, 2016

Wolfgang Bosbach is Roman Catholic. He married Sabine Bosbach in 1987, who happened to have the same surname as him. They have three daughters together. Bosbach lives with his family in Bergisch Gladbach.

He has suffered from heart failure since 1994 and has been wearing a pacemaker with a combined defibrillator since 2004 . After a state party conference of the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia in March 2013, Bosbach collapsed. Investigations showed that a technical defect in the defibrillator was the trigger. In the talk show Markus Lanz on June 27, 2013, Bosbach mentioned that a new device had been used for him.

In the same broadcast, Bosbach made his prostate cancer diagnosed on June 3, 2010 public. In August 2012, Bosbach announced that the disease was incurable due to advanced metastases .

In an interview with the Kölner Express , which was published on November 7, 2016, Bosbach said of his announced retirement from professional politics: “I wrestled with myself for a long time. But when the doctors diagnosed in early March that I had developed a tumor in my lungs, my decision was made. In the future, health must have a higher priority than politics. "

Political positions

Security and monitoring measures

At the beginning of 2010, Bosbach requested the introduction of body scanners at German airports for the current year.

In 2011, Bosbach called for the anti- terrorism law and the visa warning file to be extended . This allows the Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Military Counter-Intelligence Service to access vehicle and owner data, check postal traffic, query account, telecommunications and passenger data, locate cell phones or listen to apartments. Bosbach explained in this context: “There is still no final agreement on the anti-terror laws. And I can only advise you to decide these three facts at the same time. I fear that if we continue the anti-terror laws we will have to pay a political price to the FDP again. "

Protection of minors and combating games with killing simulation

Bosbach repeatedly spoke out in favor of banning games based on killing simulations. On November 21, 2006, he demanded that access to killer games be made as difficult as possible by imposing a ban on importing, selling, renting and lending . In 2009, after the rampage in Winnenden , he campaigned for a ban on paintball, airsoft and gotcha , even after his parliamentary group had already withdrawn corresponding amendments. "This is a killing simulation", quoted the Märkische Allgemeine Bosbach on May 27, 2009.

Bosbach advocated the blocking of websites initiated by the then Federal Minister for Family Affairs Ursula von der Leyen to make access to child pornographic content more difficult .

Immigration policy

In the course of the discussion about the Swiss minaret ban at the end of 2009, Bosbach showed understanding for the vote in Switzerland on German television , as the concerns of the citizens should be taken seriously, although on December 2, 2009 he made it clear in the television program Hart aber Fair , that he himself would have voted against the ban. He represents inter alia the requirement should be that follow a German concession to the Islamic community in Germany, a toleration of Christian communities in Islamic countries of origin of German Muslims with a migration background: "I'm just about one thing: If different religions live peacefully side by side you have to accept the rules here! Those who now demand tolerance should apply the same tolerance towards Christians in their countries. ” Bosbach interprets the Swiss so-called popular initiative against mass immigration as an argument for stricter rules against socio-economically motivated migration to Germany.

During the refugee crisis , Bosbach declared that Germany's absorption capacity and integrative power are not unlimited. He considered it wrong to rely on a “European solution”. Instead, he called for immigration to be controlled and limited more closely. This was actually always important to his party, so he was surprised that it had given up this goal. After the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve 2015/16 , in January 2016 in the Bundestag he called for a political course correction and the rapid end of a loss of control "that we have had since the summer of last year", since the country was facing excessive demands.

In the course of the crisis, Bosbach's popularity rose in surveys. In September 2015 he reached third place on the list of the most important politicians behind Wolfgang Schäuble and Frank-Walter Steinmeier and relegated Chancellor Angela Merkel to fourth. It held this position until January 2016. At the end of January 2016 it no longer played a role, and it stayed that way until May 2016.

Euro rescue

Bosbach announced several times since July 2011 that he would not agree to the law on an expansion of the European rescue package and the aid package for Greece in the Bundestag vote for reasons of conscience .

On September 29, 2011, he voted against the government's draft law in the roll-call vote to expand the EFSF . Shortly afterwards he was insulted by the Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla . Pofalla later apologized publicly for his affront ; Bosbach accepted the apology. In interviews, Bosbach complained about the enormous pressure that had been exerted on him and other so-called deviants within the faction. For his false assertion in front of an audience of millions on the TV show Günther Jauch in June 2015 that the Greek retirement age was 56, he received sharp criticism. In the same broadcast, Bosbach indicated his resignation in the event that the Bundestag decides on new aid money for Greece.

Comments on the blasphemy paragraph

After the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris , the FDP and the Greens demanded that the so-called "blasphemy paragraph" § 166 of the Criminal Code abolish insulting creeds, religious societies and ideological associations . Bosbach countered these demands and, in turn, called for them to be tightened. The paragraph protects neither a deity nor religious sentiments, but only public peace.

Energy policy and nuclear phase-out

At the presentation of the Berlin Manifesto in November 2012, Wolfgang Bosbach spoke out in favor of a more market economy in energy policy. In this context, he emphasized that the nuclear phase-out had been decreed from above.

Awards

Publications

literature

documentation

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Bosbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Wolfgang Bosbach  - in the news

Individual evidence

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  15. ↑ Max Holscher: "80 percent think politicians are stupid, 90 percent want a photo" , Spiegel online, May 13, 2017.
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personal data
SURNAME Bosbach, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosbach, Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach