Peter Hauk

Peter Hauk (born 24 December 1960 in Walldürn, Germany) is a German politician of the CDU party. He has been a member of the Landtag (state parliament) of Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1992. From 2005 until 2010 he was Minister for Nutrition and Rurality (rural areas) and from 2010 until the election of Guido Wolf to faction leader in 2015 he was CDU faction leader and leader of the opposition in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Since 12 May 2016 he is a member of the Cabinet Kretschmann II as Minister for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection.

Peter Hauk grew up in Rippberg in the Odenwald where he passed his Abitur (state school exams) in 1980 at the Karl-Ernst-Gymnasium in Amorbach. After military service with the Panzergrenadier (armoured infantry) in Münster and Walldürn he studied forestry at the University of Freiburg and obtained the degree Diplom-Forstwirt.

He then worked as a scientist at the Forestry Experimental and Research Institute in Freiburg in the area of landscape management. After an internship at the State Forestry Administration in Gundelsheim, Stuttgart and Künzelsau he passed the Civil Service Exams. From 1989 until 1991 he worked as Forestry Assessor with the Freiburg Forestry Directorate in Lahr and Staufen.

Hauk was the Deputy Head of the Schoental Forestry Department (Jagst), then until 2001 Project Leader at the Forestry Experimental and Research Institute in Baden-Württemberg and from 2001 until 2005 Director of the Adelsheim Forestry office. He was also active as chairman of the Working Group for rural adult education of Baden-Württemberg (German abbreviation ALEB)

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