David McAllister
David James McAllister ( deɪvɪd dʒeɪmz məkæləstə, born January 12, 1971 in West Berlin) is a German politician of the CDU, who also has British citizenship. He was from July 1, 2010 to February 19, 2013 Lower Saxony's Minister President. Previously, he was since 2003 Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group; He is also chairman of the state - CDU since 2008. In these three offices him Christian Wulff went ahead directly, which in 2010 was President.
McAllister was the first German Prime Minister with dual citizenship.
Life
Education and work
David James McAllister was born on 12 January 1971 as the son of a German mother and a British. His father, James Buchanan McAllister, comes from Glasgow and was stationed since 1955 as a civil official of the British Army during the Cold War to various departments in Germany. He had previously served in the Second World War in the 51st ( Highland ) Division of the British armed forces, including in Germany. His mother was German Mechthild and singing teacher. David grew up with his two older sisters in a British settlement in the district of Charlottenburg. He was raised bilingual in German and English, and first attended a British primary school.
After his parents had moved in 1982 from Berlin to Bad Bederkesa in the district of Cuxhaven, he was in 1989, graduated from high school at the local Lower Saxony boarding school. From 1989 to 1991 he was a regular soldier ( last rank Corporal ) at the Bundeswehr Tank Battalion 74 in Cuxhaven. From 1991 to 1996, he studied with a scholarship from the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung law at the University of Hannover. In 1996 he completed the first legal state exam. After the training period followed in 1998, the second state examination. After that, he became a lawyer.
Party race
From 1991 to 1994 McAllister was county chairman of the Junge Union in the district of Cuxhaven Association. From August 2002 to August 2003 he was Secretary General of the CDU in Lower Saxony. Increasingly, McAllister tried to distinguish themselves on federal political arena. He became deputy for two years Chairman of the Group Chairpersons' Conference of the CDU and CSU and worked at the basic program of his party with. 2005 Angela Merkel wanted to make him the secretary general of the federal CDU, but he refused.
At the state party of the CDU on June 14, 2008 in Celle McAllister was elected with 98.9 percent of the new state chairman, succeeding Christian Wulff. In this office he was confirmed with 98.2 percent on August 27, 2010 at the state convention in Lingen with 97.0 percent and on October 12, 2012 at the state convention in Celle.
McAllister told to compete for the first place of Lower Saxony list for the European elections in 2014. As a leading candidate he wants to lead the CDU in the election campaign.
Deputies activity
From 1996 to 2010, McAllister deputy in Cuxhaven district council. Since 1998 he is a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament. February 4, 2003 until his election as Prime Minister on July 1, 2010, he held the office of the CDU parliamentary group chairman.
For the state election 27 January 2008 placed it the CDU No. 2 in the country list. In his constituency 57 ( Hadeln - Wesermünde ) he won, as early as 2003, the direct mandate ( 52.64 per cent of the primary vote ) well ahead of the direct candidates of other parties. In the regional elections on January 20, 2013, he reached ( Hadeln / Wesermünde ) 64.4 percent, again a direct mandate in constituency 57. He improved so against the national trend his personal income by about 12 percent. In contrast, the proportion of second votes of the CDU had increased in his constituency over the previous state election only slightly from 48.3 to 48.8 percent. McAllister was also No. 1 on the country's list of his party.
Although it might have seemed that McAllister after his resignation as Prime Minister takes over the presidency of his parliamentary group, to McAllister already decided a few days after the state election, however. Instead, he gave this function the previous CDU parliamentary group chairman Björn Thümler. From February 2013 to March 2014 McAllister sat as a back-bencher in the Lower Saxony state parliament. Then he retired to devote himself fully to the European election campaign. For him, the former Minister Aygül Özkan moved according to the state parliament.
Public offices
From 2001 to 2002, McAllister mayor of Bad Bederkesa. He was elected on July 1, 2010 Prime Minister of Niedersachsen. He thus came to succeed Christian Wulff, who was previously selected a day from the 14th to the Federal Assembly Federal President. In the state election on 20 January 2013, the CDU leadership remained under McAllister with 36.0 percent strongest party, but the government camp of CDU and FDP just going down to the former opposition of the SPD and Alliance 90/The Greens.
Private
McAllister is since August 2003 with the lawyer Dunja McAllister, born Kolleck married. The couple has two daughters and lives in Bad Bederkesa.
Awards
- 2010: Lower Rhine Owl for political prudence and wisdom
- 2012: Honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh