Wolfgang Bosbach
Wolfgang Walter Wilhelm Bosbach [ bɔsbax ] ( born June 11, 1952 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German politician ( CDU) and lawyer.
Bosbach was from 2000 to 2009 Deputy Chairman of the CDU / CSU Parliamentary Group and since 2009 chairman of the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag.
- 2.1 Safety and monitoring measures
- 2.2 Protection of minors and combat games with "killing Simulation"
- 2.3 Immigration Policy
- 2.4 euro rescue
Life
Training
Post-high school 1968 Wolfgang Bosbach trained as a retail clerk at Konsumgenossenschaft Cologne eG / COOP West AG and was from 1972 to 1974 Head of a supermarket. He then attended the Rheinische Cologne Academy, which he left with the conclusion as a certified business administration in 1977. On the second-chance education he got in 1980 the Abitur. Then Bosbach graduated in law at the University of Cologne, which he finished in 1988 with the first and 1991 with the second legal state examination. Since then, he has been admitted to and worked alongside his deputy's mandate in this profession.
Party
Bosbach is a member of the CDU since 1972. From April 2003 to 2005 Bosbach was deputy chairman of the CDU in North Rhine -Westphalia. Bosbach is a member of the Berlin Circle, an informal group of conservative CDU internal modernization and Merkel - skeptics.
Member of Parliament
From 1975 to 1979 Bosbach belonged to the district council of the Rheinisch -Bergisch district and from 1979 to 1999 to the Council his hometown of Bergisch Gladbach.
1994 and 1998 he moved as a directly elected representative of the constituency of a Rheinisch- Bergisch District I and 2002 and 2005 for the constituency of Rheinisch- Bergisch District in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 49.3% of the primary vote. In 2009, he took 50 % of the vote of his constituency the direct mandate. In 2013 he moved with 58.5 % directly elected for the sixth time in the Bundestag.
From February 2000 to November 2009, he was Deputy Chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, and thus responsible for the areas of law, petition, indoor, sports, displaced persons and refugees, Arts Culture and media within the Group. Since November 2009 he has been chairman of the Interior Committee.
Others commitment
- Board member of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy.
- Board member of the Cologne ice hockey club " The Sharks " eV
- Member of the ZDF Television Council since March 9, 2010 as a representative of the CDU and a member of the Program Committee Program Directorate
Private
Wolfgang Bosbach is Roman Catholic, married since 1987 and has three daughters. On 3 June 2010 he made in the ZDF broadcast Markus Lanz his prostate cancer publicly. In August 2012, Bosbach announced that the disease was incurable due to advanced metastatic disease. Nevertheless, he was a candidate in the general election on 22 September 2013, and was 58.5 % of the vote again directly elected representative of the Rheinisch -Bergisch circle.
Political positions
Security and surveillance measures
In the context of crime and terrorism is Bosbach sat for controversial security measures. In 2000, he called for an expansion of video surveillance in public space. It could " make no one has the right to claim to go undetected through the city. " In early 2010 called Bosbach introducing so-called body scanners at German airports still for the current year.
2011 Bosbach called the extension of the anti-terrorism law and the visa warning file. This allows the Federal Intelligence Service, Federal Constitutional protection and military counterintelligence to access vehicle and owner data, to check the postal service to query account, telecommunications and passenger data to locate mobile phones or listen apartments. Bosbach explained in this context "There is in the anti - terror laws still no final agreement. And I can only guess these three facts to decide the same time. I am afraid that we would otherwise have to again pay a political price to the FDP in the continuation of anti -terror laws. "
Protection of minors and combat games with "killing Simulation"
Bosbach spoke repeatedly in favor of banning games based on "killing simulations " based upon its characterization. So he called on 21 November 2006, to make it through an import, sale, rental and lending ban access to so-called killer games as difficult as possible.
2009, after the massacre of Winnenden, he used his power to ban paintball ( Airsoft, Gotcha ), even after his group had already withdrawn proposals for amendments. "This is a killing Simulation" märkische General Bosbach quoted on May 27, 2009.
Bosbach advocated initiated by the Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen and previously had been advocated by Bosbach, controversial closures of websites.
Immigration policy
In the course of discussion on the Swiss minaret ban in late 2009 Bosbach showed on German television understanding of the vote in Switzerland, where he but made clear that he would have voted against the ban ( eg on 2 December 2009 in the mission tough but fair ). He represents it, inter alia, the requirement that a German concession on the Muslim community should also follow a toleration of the Christian communities in the Muslim countries of origin of German Muslims with a migrant background in Germany. Bosbach indicated the Swiss federal popular initiative "Against mass immigration " as an argument for stricter rules against so-called poverty-driven migration in Germany. He rejects criticism of Syria 's refugee policy.
Euro Rescue
Wolfgang Bosbach announced in July 2011, several times that he can not agree with the law on the possible expansion of the European bailout fund and the aid package for Greece in the parliamentary vote of conscience. On 29 September 2011 Wolfgang Bosbach agreed with the roll call vote to expand the EFSF against the draft law. Shortly thereafter he was offended by the Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla. Pofalla later apologized publicly for his affront; Bosbach accepted the apology.
In interviews Bosbach lamented the enormous pressure that has been exerted fraction internally on him and other so-called deviants.
Awards
- Ring of honor of Bergisch Gladbach ( He accepted the certificate, but refused the gold ring from )
- 2008 Order of Merit of the Federal Bul le Mérite German Police
- 2013 Bröckemännche price
- 2013 Teacher Welsch price of the Cologne Regional Group of the Association German Language
- 2013 Order " moral courage and character " of civil society Cologne Thielenbruch
- 2013 "Golden Steering Wheel " the Great Mülheim Carnival Society 1903 ( GMKG ) Cologne for his extraordinary effort
- 2014 " honorary senator " the Dusseldorf Carnival Society WEISSFRÄCKE in the course of passing the " Foolish Graduate" during the ceremonial meeting of the society in February 2014