Peter Hintze
Peter Hintze | |
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Vice President of the Bundestag (on proposal of the CDU/CSU-group) | |
In office 22 October 2013 – 26 November 2016 | |
President | Norbert Lammert |
Preceded by | none (second VP-post for the CSU/CSU-group was created after the 2013 election) |
Succeeded by | Michaela Noll |
Member of the Bundestag | |
In office 1990–2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Alma mater | |
Profession | Parson |
Peter Hintze (25 April 1950 – 26 November 2016) was a German politician of the
From 2013 until 2016, Hintze was one of the six Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.[1] He had previously been federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU from 1990 to 1992 and general secretary of the CDU from 1992 to 1998. He was also Vice President of the Centrist Democrat International.
Political career
Hintze served as a member of the German Bundestag from the 1990 federal election. Between 1990 and 1992, he chaired the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU.
In 1991/1992, Hintze briefly served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the
During the national election campaign in 1994 Hintze was the driving force behind the Rote-Socken-Kampagne ("Red Socks Campaign"), a campaign which was directed against the left-wing PDS and the alleged possibility of a coalition between the PDS and the Social Democratic Party. It is believed that the Rote-Socken-Kampagne contributed to the electoral victory of the CDU and Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
In autumn 2005, the
From 2006, Hintze led the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest delegation within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.[citation needed]
In the negotiations to form a
]In his capacity as vice-president, he was a member of the parliament’s
In 2015, Hintze appointed Diana Kinnert as his parliamentary chief of staff, which made her the youngest chief of staff in the history of the Bundestag.[2]
Hintze died from cancer on 26 November 2016.[3] He was 66.
Recognition
- 2009 – Officier de la Légion d’Honneur
- 2012 – Robert Schuman Medal
References
- ^ Müller, Peter (10 August 2014). "Bundestagsvizepräsident: CDU-Politiker Hintze will Sterbehilfe ermöglichen". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2014.
- ^ Braun, Peter (13 September 2018). "The People Behind the Podiums: A Background Primer on Diana Kinnert". SmartRecruiters. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- ^ CDU-Politiker Peter Hintze gestorben Bild, 27 November 2016.
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