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David James "Mac" McAllister (born 12 January 1971〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Curriculum Vitae of Prime Minister David McAllister )〕) is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). On 1 July 2010 McAllister was elected Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony, succeeding Christian Wulff, who resigned following his election as President of Germany. At the time, he was considered a rising star in the CDU, and was even being talked of as a potential successor to Angela Merkel.〔Esther Bintliff (January 21, 2013), (5 reasons to care about the Lower Saxony election ) ''Financial Times''.〕 Until his election defeat on 19 February 2013, he headed a coalition government with the liberal FDP, the Cabinet McAllister. In the 2014 European elections, McAllister was elected a Member of the European Parliament at the top of the CDU's list of candidates in Lower Saxony.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=European elections: MEP lists (complete) )〕 A lawyer by profession, he has served as the chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag (Parliament) of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010 and was elected chairman of the state party in 2008. ==Early life== McAllister was born in West Berlin on 12 January 1971 to a Scottish father and a German mother. His father, James Buchanan McAllister, was a British civil servant, originally from Glasgow (where the family still has relatives), stationed in West Berlin since 1969, where he was attached to the Royal Corps of Signals. His mother, Mechthild McAllister, is a music teacher. David McAllister was raised bilingually and attended a British primary school in Berlin.〔("Mac" brings Scottish flavor to German politics ), by Dave Graham, Reuters, 4 February 2009〕 In a 2010 interview he linked his family's name to Clan MacAlister. After his parents moved to the small town of Bad Bederkesa in Lower Saxony in 1982, he went to the Lower Saxon ''Internatsgymnasium'' (boarding school) in Bederkesa, where he took his Abitur in 1989. From 1989 till 1991, McAllister served as a soldier in the Bundeswehr, in Panzerbataillon 74 in Cuxhaven. From 1991–96 he studied law with a scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation at the University of Hanover. In 1994, McAllister became local chairman of the CDU youth organisation, Junge Union, in the Cuxhaven district. David McAllister holds both German and British citizenship, although he has stated that he's "more or less completely German. I've lived in Germany all my life. I did all my school in Germany and my military service in Germany." His upbringing in West Berlin, however, he describes as "very British" with "British network, British schools". Holding dual citizenship, he could have relinquished his German citizenship to avoid compulsory military service in Germany (the UK does not have compulsory military service), but opted to serve instead. McAllister has said that ''"my upbringing in West Berlin may have had an impact on my resentment towards communists. I became a member of the CDU when I was 17 – it was a birthday present. My parents said, ‘What do you want for your birthday?’ I said I wanted to become a member of the CDU"'', explaining that his father was a Conservative, although neither of his parents were involved in party politics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David McAllister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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