Klaus Riegert (born 26 February 1959 in Süßen, Göppingen) is a German politician (CDU). Until 2013, he was deputy chairman of the Subcommittee on Civic Involvement of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of the German

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and chairman of the Working Group on Sport and Volunteering of the

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parliamentary group in the Bundestag.

Life

Riegert joined the police service of the

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and, after obtaining his technical college entrance qualification, completed his studies at the ''Hochschule für Polizei Baden-Württemberg'' (University of Applied Sciences) in Villingen-Schwenningen, graduating with a Bachelor of Public Administration. Most recently, Riegert was deputy head of the criminal investigation department. Klaus Riegert is

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and married for the second time. He has two children from his first marriage. He lives with his wife in

Kirchheim unter Teck Kirchheim unter Teck ( Swabian: ''Kircha'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the district of Esslingen. It is located on the small river Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. It is 10 km (6 miles) near the Teck castle, approximately ...

Political career

Riegert joined the CDU in 1984. He is a member of the executive committee of the North Württemberg district association of the Christian Democratic Employees' Union (CDA). On 10 June 1992 Riegert succeeded the late Lutz Stavenhagen in the Bundestag. Here he was sports policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 1994. Riegert was also deputy chairman of the Subcommittee on Civic Involvement of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and chairman of the Working Group on Sport and Volunteering of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. Riegert was also the captain of FC Bundestag, the soccer team of the German Bundestag. Klaus Riegert entered the Bundestag in 1992 via the Baden-Württemberg state list and thereafter always as a directly elected member of parliament for the constituency of Göppingen. In the

2005 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 18 September 2005 to elect the members of the 16th Bundestag. The snap election was called after the government's defeat in a state election, which caused them to intentionally lose a motion of confide ...

, he achieved 48.3% of the first-past-the-post votes here. In the 2009 federal election, he achieved 43.1% of the vote in his constituency and again entered the Bundestag as a direct candidate. For the 2013 federal election, he was no longer elected by his district association as a direct candidate, instead the delegates nominated Hermann Färber.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Riegert, Klaus 1959 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany