Peter Tauber | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2009 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Frankfurt, West Germany (now Germany) |
22 August 1974
Citizenship | German |
Nationality | Germany |
Political party | CDU |
Occupation | Politician |
Peter Michael Tauber (born 22 August 1974 in Frankfurt) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Since 2009 he is a MP of the German Bundestag. On 16 December 2013 he was appointed Secretary General of the CDU.
After high school diploma in 1994 in Gelnhausen Tauber studied Medieval and Modern History, German Philology, and Political Science at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, temporarily interrupted by military service. In 2000 he finished his studies as a Magister Artium with distinction.
From 2000 to 2001, Tauber was a research fellow at Goethe University. From 2001 to 2003 he was State General Manager of the Junge Union in Hesse, since 2003 he was chairman of the Junge Union in Hesse. From 2003 to 2004 he was personal advisor of the Hessian Culture Minister Karin Wolff in the state government of Minister-President Roland Koch. In 2007 he attained a doctorate with Lothar Gall. He wrote his thesis about the social position and ideological functionalisation of sports in the German Kaiserreich.
From 2008 until the federal elections in 2009 Tauber was press spokesman of Deutsche Vermögensberatung. In 2008 he also became a lecturer at the history department of the Goethe University.
Tauber became a member of the Junge Union in 1991, and he joined the CDU in 1992. From 1993 to 2007 he was City Councillor in Wächtersbach. Since 2005 he also was MP of the county council (Kreistag) of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. 2008 he was elected board member of CDU Hesse.