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Volker Kauder (born 3 September 1949 in Hoffenheim) is a German CDU politician. Since 2005 he has been the parliamentary group leader of the ruling CDU and Christian Social Union in Bavaria in the German ''Bundestag'' (lower house). 〔 http://volker-kauder.de/zur-person/kurz-vita/index.html 〕 Kauder is frequently referred to as the "right hand" of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and is one of the most prominent politicians of his party and one with the most influence.〔(Merkels rechte Hand ) Merkels right hand, article in focus online of 22. of December 2004.〕〔(Portrait on n-tv )〕 ==Political career== Kauder, a student of the Hegau-Gymnasium in Singen, became a member of Junge Union in the age of 17. In 1991, he became Secretary General of Baden-Würtemberg CDU until the resignation of party chairman Erwin Teufel in 2005. A trained lawyer, Kauder has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1990, representing the town of Rottweil in southwestern Germany.〔Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs (August 13, 2013), (Merkel Ally Kauder Says Germany Unable to Stop U.K. Exit From EU ) ''Bloomberg''.〕 He became Secretary General of the CDU in early 2005, after his predecessor Laurenz Meyer was forced to quit over payments he had received from his past employment with RWE, the power company.〔Suneal Housely (August 19, 2005), (German election - the key players ) ''Financial Times''.〕 During the 2005 federal elections, he served as the confidante and campaign coordinator of Angela Merkel while spearheading CDU proposals to increase VAT by 2 per cent to fund non-wage labour cost-cutting.〔Suneal Housely (August 19, 2005), (German election - the key players ) ''Financial Times''.〕 Following his party’s victory in the elections, Kauder was elected chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He has since led the group with changing co-chairs from the CSU, Peter Ramsauer (2005-09), Hans-Peter Friedrich (2009-11), and Gerda Hasselfeldt (since 2011). Since 2005, he has served on the Committee on the Election of Judges (''Wahlausschuss''), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2013 federal elections, Kauder was part of the 15-member leadership circle chaired by Angela Merkel, Horst Seehofer and Sigmar Gabriel. 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「Volker Kauder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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