Lorenz Caffier
| Lorenz Caffier | |
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| Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | |
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Assumed office 1990 |
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| Member of the People's Chamber of East Germany | |
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In office 1990–1990 |
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| Succeeded by | None |
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December 24, 1954 Weixdorf, Bezirk Dresden, East Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Lorenz Caffier (24 December 1954 in Weixdorf, Saxony) is the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Caffier has been serving since 2006 as State Minister of the Interior and since 2011 as Deputy Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the governments of Minister-Presidents Harald Ringstorff (2006-2008) and Erwin Sellering (since 2008). As one of the state’s representatives at the Bundesrat, he has been the chairman of the Defence Committee since 2006. In addition, he has been leading the Bundesrat delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2010. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Caffier was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Thomas Oppermann.
Caffier was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2017.
In 2012, Caffier caused controversy when he proposed that football fans might have to pass through "face scanners" at stadiums, comparing visitors' biometric data to a database of known football rioters.
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