Joachim Pfeiffer

Joachim Pfeiffer ( born April 25, 1967 in Mutlangen ) is a German politician ( CDU). He is a member of the German Bundestag since 2002.

  • 2.1 Membership in scientific bodies of the Bundestag 2.1.1 Committee on Economics and Technology
  • 2.1.2 Defence Committee

Life and career

Joachim Pfeiffer was born on April 25, 1967 in Mutlangen. Following the Realschule Pfeiffer moved to the commercial high school in Schwäbisch Gmünd and graduated in 1986 with the Abitur. From 1986 to 1988, Pfeiffer went during his military service in the training as a reserve officer in the army. His rank is captain of the reserve (as of 2012).

1988 Pfeiffer began a study of technically oriented business administration with a focus specialist traffic engineering at the University of Stuttgart, which he successfully completed his MBA in 1992. His study was funded by a grant from the Institute for the Gifted of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. During his studies he joined the beating and optional color-wearing fraternity Stuttgart Alemannia. 1997 he obtained his PhD as a freelance part-time PhD student Dr. rer. pol. at the University of Stuttgart with the work " The legal form of decision of the public waste management authorities in the field of waste management in Baden -Württemberg".

From 1992 to 1997, Pfeiffer was Swabia engaged in energy supply and there entrusted controlling and investments with corporate acquisitions and working with public-private partnership projects in the water supply and sanitation, among others in the area. He was from 1997 to 2002 Head of the Economic and Employment Promotion Stuttgart and exercise since 2003, a free-lance consultative work out. Since 2006, Pfeiffer takes over the part-time work as a lecturer for true energy policy at the Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Use of Energy (IER ), University of Stuttgart.

Since 1994 Joachim Pfeiffer is married and has three sons.

Political career

1982 Pfeiffer appeared as a student in the Young Union. Three years later, in 1985, he became a member of the CDU. He was from 1990 to 1994 Circle Chairman of the Junge Union Rems -Murr. In the period from 1992 to 1999, Pfeiffer councilor in his home town Urbach, and since 1994 a member of the Regional Assembly of the Verband Region Stuttgart. Since 1996, Pfeiffer is chairman of the CDU faction in the Verband Region Stuttgart. From 1997 to 1999 he was a representative of the National Association of Baden- Württemberg in the German district of the Junge Union. Since 2000, Pfeiffer district chairman of the CDU is Rems -Murr. From 2003 to 2009 he was assessor of the Land executive of the CDU Baden- Württemberg. 2002 Pfeiffer became a member of the German Bundestag and since then has always drawn as directly elected representative of the constituency of Waiblingen in the Bundestag. In the general election 2009 (2005) he reached there 43.0 % ( 49.6 %) of the primary vote. From 2005 to 2009 he was coordinator on energy issues and deputy economic policy spokesman of the CDU / CSU Parliamentary Group, since November 2009 he has been Chairman of the Working Group on Economics and Technology (since January 2014 renamed " Economy and Energy "). He is the economic policy spokesman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Memberships

Membership in scientific bodies of the Bundestag

Committee on Economics and Technology

Pfeiffer is a full member of the Committee of Economy and Energy. In this committee, current economic policy issues that remain not only a German domestic area of ​​work in the EU internal market and global competition, treated. On the agenda there are fundamental issues of economic policy and energy policy, postal services, telecommunications, new technologies and innovations, but also the middle class in the.

Defence Committee

In Defence Committee Pfeiffer is a deputy member. The focus of the defense committee the country's security, the Allies and last but not least the German soldiers is in use.

Functions in companies

Pfeiffer performs the following functions in a company:

  • GWG company for residential and commercial Baden- Württemberg AG, Stuttgart, Member of Advisory Board
  • Kofler Energies, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • INITIUM AG Consulting and Management, Pluederhausen, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Transport and Tariff Association Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Stuttgart Region Economic Development GmbH, Stuttgart, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Leadvise Region Mitte GmbH, Darmstadt, Member of Advisory Board

Functions in corporations and institutions under public law

He accepts the following functions in corporations and institutions under public law:

  • Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway, Bonn, Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board
  • Verband Region Stuttgart, Stuttgart, member of the Regional Assembly

Memberships and Functions in clubs, associations and foundations

He accepts the following functions in clubs, associations and foundations:

  • Forum Region Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Board of Trustees
  • Institute of the German Real Estate Association ( iddiw ), Berlin, Member of the Advisory Board
  • National Association Wurttembergischer carnival clubs eV 1958, Stuttgart, assessors Committee on Legal Affairs
  • Packaging Excellence Region Stuttgart eV, Waiblingen, competence center for packaging and automation technology, Waiblingen, Member of Advisory Board
  • Foundation Energy & Climate Protection Baden- Württemberg, Karlsruhe, Board of Trustees
  • Foundation Theater Haus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Board of Trustees
  • Society for the Study of structural issues eV, Berlin, Chairman of the Advisory Council for Economic and Business Law
  • Pfeiffer is still and also a member of the European Union, Germany.

Positions

Pfeiffer is regarded as advocate of the use of nuclear power plants for energy production. Before the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2010, he voted in favor of nuclear maturity of 60 years. In the debate on the export of weapons to Saudi Arabia in July 2011, he advocated the sale of both political and economic reasons, and defended the sale of Leopard 2 tanks again on the edge of a visit to Riyadh in June 2012, saying that they had thereby " the opportunity to address our notions of security policy and human rights. "

Others

On October 24, 2004 Pfeiffer was confirmed at an election party at the mayor of Stuttgart - election in which Wolfgang Schuster in the second ballot in office, insulted by Christopher Palmer and slapped because Pfeiffer of the resignation of Erwin Teufel by the Office of the Prime Minister state of Baden- Württemberg had occurred. This " affair Pfeiffer " cost Palmer office as Minister of State.

Publications

  • Josef Göppel, Joachim Pfeiffer: economic by nature - way to more jobs with market-based environmental protection. Mankau -Verlag, Murnau 2005, ISBN 3-9809565 8- X ( Excerpt )
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