Hans-Peter Friedrich
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Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Germany
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In office 17 December 2013 – 17 February 2014 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Ilse Aigner (Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection) |
| Succeeded by | Christian Schmidt |
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Federal Minister of the Interior Germany
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In office 3 March 2011 – 17 December 2013 |
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| Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
| Preceded by | Thomas de Maizière |
| Succeeded by | Thomas de Maizière |
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Assumed office 1998 |
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10 March 1957 Naila, West Germany |
| Political party | Christian Social Union |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Augsburg |
| Religion | Lutheran |
Hans-Peter Friedrich (born March 10, 1957) is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union (CSU). On 3 March 2011 he succeeded Thomas de Maizière as Federal Minister of the Interior and held this ministry until 17 December 2013 when he was appointed Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture. Friedrich resigned from that position in February 2014. Friedrich has a controversial history with minorities in Germany, causing outrage in 2013 after telling journalists that Islam in Germany is not something supported by history at any point.
Born in 1957 in Naila, near the northern Bavarian town of Hof, Friedrich has a PhD in law and also studied economics. From 1990 to 1991, Friedrich worked in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the economy department of the Germany Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Friedrich began his national political career as an aide to Michael Glos, a senior CSU official in parliament.
Friedrich has been a member of the Bundestag since the 1998 federal elections,. He was deputy chairman of the investigating committee for party donations from 1999 until 2002 and for electoral fraud from 2002 until 2004. From 2002 until 2005 he was also judicial counselor of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
Following the 2005 federal elections, when his party joined a Grand Coalition with Angela Merkel as Chancellor, Friedrich became deputy chairman of the parliamentary group under the leadership of Volker Kauder, covering the portfolio of housing and development. Between 2007 and 2009, he was one of 32 members of the Second Commission on the modernization of the federal state, which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany.
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