1. Hans-Peter Friedrich was born on 10 March 1957 and is a German politician of the Christian Social Union who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 1998.
14 Facts About Hans-Peter Friedrich
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From 1990 to 1991, Hans-Peter Friedrich worked in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the economy department of the Germany Embassy in Washington, DC.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich began his national political career as an aide to Michael Glos, a senior CSU official in parliament.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich has been a member of the Bundestag since the 1998 federal elections,.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich was deputy chairman of the investigating committee for party donations from 1999 until 2002 and for electoral fraud from 2002 until 2004.
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From 2009, Hans-Peter Friedrich led the CSU in parliament, replacing Peter Ramsauer.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich played a behind-the-scenes part in crafting Germany's response to the euro zone crisis.
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On 3 March 2011 Hans-Peter Friedrich succeeded Thomas de Maiziere as Federal Minister of the Interior who replaced Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.
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In early 2012, Hans-Peter Friedrich became Chancellor Angela Merkel's first Cabinet member to suggest Greece's exit from the euro.
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In late 2012, Hans-Peter Friedrich called for the immediate suspension of the visa-free regime for Serbia and Macedonia after more than 7,000 citizens of the two countries applied for asylum in Germany within one year.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich was sworn in as Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture in the third cabinet of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on 17 December 2013.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich resigned on 14 February 2014, reacting to imminent legal investigations into incidents during his tenure as Federal Minister of the Interior.
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Hans-Peter Friedrich is accused of betraying state secrets about legal investigations into Social Democrat Party heads during the coalition negotiations after the federal elections in 2013.
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In 2024, Hans-Peter Friedrich announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.