10 Facts About Volker Kauder

Volker Kauder was born on 3 September 1949 and is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union.

Volker Kauder served in this office until the resignation of party chairman Erwin Teufel in 2005.

Volker Kauder led the group with changing co-chairs from the CSU, Peter Ramsauer, Hans-Peter Friedrich, Gerda Hasselfeldt, and Alexander Dobrindt.

In 2019, Volker Kauder announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Volker Kauder is strictly against recognizing Islam as an equal religion within Germany.

Volker Kauder raised eyebrows in January 2005 when he compared draft anti-discrimination legislation to Nazi and Communist laws, arguing that the legislation would require people to hold the same political attitudes.

In discussions on whether there would be a renegotiation of France's 2015 deadline for bringing its deficit in line with the EU Stability and Growth Pact's limit of 3 percent, Volker Kauder said in a parliamentary debate that it was "high time that everyone understood that we must uphold the rules that we have adopted as law".

Volker Kauder has voted no on legislative proposals against parliamentary corruption; he did so again in spring 2013.

Volker Kauder is a confessing evangelical and has expressed his trust in the bible.

Volker Kauder was vocal in his disapproval of the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's rejection of offers throughout the negotiation process.