Christian Baldauf

Christian Baldauf (2010)

Christian Baldauf (August 9, 1967 in Frankenthal) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany) and former opposition leader in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. He is married and has two children.

Life and work

Baldauf studied law and administrative sciences in Mannheim and Heidelberg, and passed his first and second Staatsexamen in 1991 and 1994 respectively. In 1993/94 he was a research associate of Maria Böhmer. In 1995 he joined a law firm in Frankenthal, and is now a lawyer and specialist in employment law.

Politics

Baldauf became a member of the CDU in 1983, between 1992-96 he was the chairman of the local Frankenthal chapter of the Junge Union. In 1994 he was elected to the City Council of Frankenthal. From 1999 to February 2007 Baldauf was chairman of the CDU Frankenthal district association, his successor was Sonja Schönherr. In 2001 he won a seat in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. After his successful re-election in 2006 he was chairman of the Mainz parliament, and shortly thereafter, the party also elected him as chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate.^[1] In September 2008, Baldauf was confirmed by the delegates to the national party congress in the office as chairman of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate.

For the 2011 elections he proposed Julia Klöckner to oppose to the current Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck. However, his party lost the election and Baldauf stepped down as leader of the opposition to make way for Klöckner.

References

1. ^ Michaela Maier, Jens Tenscher, Campaigning in Europe - campaigning for Europe: political parties, campaigns, mass media and the European parliament elections 2004, Lit, 2006

Persondata
Name	Baldauf, Christian
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	August 9, 1967
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death