Peter Hintze
| Peter Hintze | |
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| Vice President of the Bundestag | |
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In office 22 October 2013 – 26 November 2016 |
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| President | Norbert Lammert |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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In office 1990 – 2016 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
25 April 1950 Honnef, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Died | 26 November 2016 (aged 66) |
| Political party |
 German:Christian Democratic Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession | Parson |
Peter Hintze (25 April 1950 – 26 November 2016) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and from 2013 one of the six Vice Presidents of the Bundestag. He had previously been federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU from 1990 to 1992 and general secretary of the CDU from 1992 to 1998. He served as a member of the Bundestag from 1990. He was also Vice President of the Centrist Democrat International.
Hintze served as a member of the German Bundestag from the 1990 federal election. Between 1990 and 1992, he chaired the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU.
In 1991/1992, Hintze briefly served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth under minister Angela Merkel in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
During the national election campaign in 1994 Hintze was the driving force behind the Rote-Socken-Kampagne ("Red Socks Campaign"), a campaign which was directed against the left-wing PDS and the alleged possibility of a coalition between the PDS and the Social Democratic Party. It is believed that the Rote-Socken-Kampagne contributed to the electoral victory of the CDU and Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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