Paul Lehrieder
Paul Lehrieder | |
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 Paul Lehrieder in 2012 | |
| Member of the Bundestag for Würzburg | |
| Assumed office 2005 | |
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| Born | 20 November 1959 Ochsenfurt, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | CSU |
Paul Lehrieder (born 20 November 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2005. He represents Würzburg.
Political career
[edit]Lehrieder became member of the bundestag after the 2005 German federal election.[1] He is a member of the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.[2][3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Lehrieder is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Lehrieder was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on labor policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen and Andrea Nahles. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on families, women, seniors and youth, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz, Angelika Niebler and Katarina Barley.
In early 2024, Lehrieder announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]
Political positions
[edit]In June 2017, Lehrieder voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Paul Lehrieder". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Tourism". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ^ Daniel Friedrich Sturm, Karin Christmann, Christiane Rebhan and Caspar Schwietering (18 March 2024), Abschied aus dem Parlament: Diese Abgeordneten gehen vor der Bundestagswahl freiwillig Der Tagesspiegel.
- ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
External links
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- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in English)
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