Refuge Seehofer

refuge Seehofer (CSU)

refuge Lorenz Seehofer (* 4. July 1949 in Ingolstadt) is a German politician (CSU).

It is since 2005 Federal Ministers for nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection and was from 1992 to 1998 Federal Ministers for health.

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training and occupation

as a son of a truck driver and a building worker completed after Seehofer the middle ripe 1965 training in the administration and existed 1970 the administrative examination for the elevated service. It was then until 1980 active at the district administration offices in Ingolstadt and calibrate-corroded. From 1974 to 1980 he was beside it a managing director of the planning association and rescue purpose federation region Ingolstadt. The attendance of the administrative and Wirtschaftsakademie in Munich he closed 1979 as diploma - administrative landlord (VWA) off.

Family

refuge Seehofer is married and has three children.

A party

after its entrance into the JU 1969 it occurred 1971 also the CSU . Since September 1994 is it deputy regional chairmen of the CSU.

Delegate

Seehofer is since 1980 memberthe German federal daily. Starting from October 1998 it was deputy chairmen of the CDU /CSU- Bundestag faction. Due to diversities of opinion because of the health premium in the legal health insurance, rejected by him , it stepped to 22. November 2004 as deputy leaders of the parliamentary group back, remains however one the deputy CSU chairmenand its mandate keeps.

Refuge Seehofer is with 65,9% (2002: 65.3%) of the voices of directly selected delegates of the constituency 218 (Ingolstadt).

Public offices

from 1989 to 1992 he was parliamentary undersecretary of state with the Federal Minister for work and social order. To 6. May 1992it was appointed as a Federal Minister for health into the Federal Government led of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl. After the election to the Bundestag 1998 it separated to 26. October 1998 from the government.

To 22. November 2005 became Seehofer as a Federal Minister for nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection in of Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel led Federal Government appoint.

Social offices

since that 23. April 2005 he was a chairman social federation of the VdK Bavaria. With its appointment as the Federal Minister for consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture to 22. November 2005 laid down refuge Seehofer its office as a chairman of the VdK regional organization Bavaria.The Federal Minister law does not permit a dual function.

Political position

over many years was Seehofer the most important social politician of the CDU CSU parliamentary group and is considered as social conscience of its party and as a “lawyer of the small people” as well as within its party also as a “heart Jesu socialist”. it placed itself to 2004 clearlyagainst the opinions of the party majority and appeared as sharp critics of the health compromise of the union. One partly threw to it thereupon holding to a kind rearrangement - politics forwards, which would correspond partially rather to a social-democratic line. As federation - it stood for functionary in the social federation VdK inunite aspects of the social politics still more clearly against the union line. In a large coalition it demands a third way to the reform of the health service.

Seehofer applies in the basis as very popular, in its constituency achieved it with the election to the Bundestag 2005 the country widely secondarybest result of the Erststimmen, the social federation VdK Bavaria gained 20,000 new members under its presidency.

See also

cabinet Kohl IV, cabinet Kohl V, cabinet Merkel

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