1. Peter Michael Tauber was born on 22 August 1974 and is a former German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2021.
11 Facts About Peter Tauber
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From 2000 to 2001, Peter Tauber was a research fellow at Goethe University.
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From 2008 until the federal elections in 2009 Peter Tauber was press spokesman of Deutsche Vermogensberatung.
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Peter Tauber became a member of the Junge Union in 1991, and he joined the CDU in 1992.
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Peter Tauber has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections.
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On 16 December 2013, Peter Tauber was appointed preliminarily as Secretary General of the CDU by the party's chairwoman Angela Merkel; he succeeded Hermann Grohe, who had been appointed Health Minister after the elections.
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Peter Tauber stated after his election that the CDU needed more young people, more women and more migrants within its ranks.
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In October 2020, Peter Tauber announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
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In June 2021, Peter Tauber was appointed head of communications of Engelbert Strauss in Biebergemund.
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Until 2013, Peter Tauber was considered to be an opponent of telecommunications data retention, whereas the majority in his party wanted to introduce a new bill, but this was impossible because from 2009 to 2013 the CDU was in coalition with the FDP, that was opposed to telecommunications data retention.
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In July 2017, Peter Tauber argued that someone who has a proper education does not have to work as a so-called mini jobber.