Christian Baldauf

Christian Baldauf ( born August 9, 1967 in Frankenthal ) is a German politician of the CDU and former opposition leader in Rhineland- Palatinate. He is married and has two children. Since November 2006, Baldauf is a member of the CDU Federal Board.

Life and career

After his graduation Baldauf studied Law and Administrative Sciences in Mannheim and Heidelberg and put 1991 his first state examination in 1994 his second state examination. 1993/94 he was a research associate of Maria Böhmer ( MP ). In 1995 he joined a law firm in Frankenthal and has been a lawyer and specialist in employment law.

Policy

1983 Baldauf was a member of the CDU and 1992-96 was chairman of the Junge Union of the District Association Frankenthal. In 1994 he was elected to the city council of Frankenthal. From 1999 to February 26, 2007 Baldauf was chairman of the CDU district association Frankenthal, his successor was Sonja Schönherr. In 2001 he won the direct mandate and moved into the Landtag of Rhineland- Palatinate. After his successful re-election in 2006 he was Chairman of the Group in Mainz parliament, and shortly after the party also elected him as Chairman of the CDU Rhineland- Palatinate.

2007 accused him of the Rhineland-Palatinate, the SPD Parliamentary Group, to have initiated the recruitment of the CDU mayor candidates Kai Schürholt in Landau. Baldauf said he had made ​​between the Landauer CDU boss Ralf Göbel and Wilhelm Wallmann, chairman of the Taxpayers Association in RLP only on his cell phone a contact. The FDP faction called the allegations of the SPD as a " theater of the absurd ".

With 98.3 percent of the vote Baldauf was confirmed by the delegates of the country party congress in September 2008 in the office as state chairman of the CDU Rhineland- Palatinate. Julia Klöckner 2010 followed him in the country's presidency. 2011, Baldauf District Chairman of the CDU Rheinhessen-Pfalz and first Deputy Chairman of the CDU faction in the parliament of Rhineland- Palatinate.