Peter Beuth (born 3 December 1967 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party. Beuth is an MP in the

Landtag A Landtag (State Diet) is generally the legislative assembly or parliament of a federated state or other subnational self-governing entity in German-speaking nations. It is usually a unicameral assembly exercising legislative competence in non- ...

, the parliament of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

. Since 18 January 2014 he is State Minister of the Interior and for Sports in the government of Minister-President

Volker Bouffier Volker Bouffier (born 18 December 1951) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Minister President of the German state of Hessen from 31 August 2010 to 31 May 2022. From 1 November 2014 until 31 October 2015 ...

of Hesse. Before that he was Secretary General of CDU Hesse since 14 March 2009.

Early life and career

After high school diploma in 1988 in

Taunusstein Taunusstein () is the biggest town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany. It has 30,068 inhabitants (2020). Geography Location Taunusstein lies roughly 10 km northwest of Wiesbaden and abo ...

Beuth worked as an assistant for media planning. He studied law at

University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

completing his studies in 1997 with the first state examination, in 2001 with the second state examination. Since October 2003 to 2014 he worked as a lawyer.

Political career

Beuth joined the

Junge Union The Junge Union Deutschlands (''Young Union of Germany'') or JU is the joint youth organisation of the two conservative German political parties, CDU and CSU. Membership is limited to individuals between 14 and 35 years of age. Junge Union clai ...

(JU) in

Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

in 1983, in 1987 he was elected chairman of JU Hohenstein, 1989 county chairman of JU

Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis is part of the Darmstadt region; its main administrative seat is Bad Schwalbach. Outposted sections of the local administration are located in Idstein and R ...

. 1994-1998 he was member of the JU board in the state of Hesse. In 1987 Beuth also joined the CDU in Hohenstein and was vice county chairman since the year of 2000. From 1993 to 2011 he was member of the county council (

Kreistag In all German states, except for the three city states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a ''Gemeinde'' (municipality) is the (official term in all but two states) or (official term in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia a ...

) of Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis, since 2011 he is county councillor on a voluntary base. From 1997 to 2009 and 2011-2012 he was city councillor of the city of

, 2004-2008 faction leader of CDU Taunusstein. In 2000 he also was elected county vice chairman of CDU Rheingau-Taunus. 2006-2014 he was in the Regionalversammlung Südhessen ("Regional Assembly Hesse South"). In the 1999 state elections, Beuth was elected MP of the Landtag of Hesse, working in several committees, such as Law Committee and Cultural Committee. Beuth also worked as a speaker for law policies and interior policies of the CDU faction in the Landtag. In March 2009 Beuth was elected Secretary General of the CDU Hesse under the leadership of party chairman

Roland Koch Roland Koch (born 24 March 1958) is a German jurist and former conservative politician of the Christian Democratic Union (Germany), CDU. He was the 7th Minister-President, Minister President of Hesse from 7 April 1999, immediately becoming the 5 ...

. He was re-elected in 2012. Beuth led

's electoral campaign in Hesse in 2013 state elections which resulted in the CDU becoming the strongest political force in the state. He also led the coalition talks with the

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

resulting in the first CDU-Green party coalition in a territorial state in Germany. In the negotiations to form a

coalition government A coalition government is a form of government in which political parties cooperate to form a government. The usual reason for such an arrangement is that no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an election, an atypical outcome in ...

under the leadership of

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Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Oppo ...

following the 2017 federal elections, Beuth was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by

Thomas de Maizière Karl Ernst Thomas de Maizière (; born 21 January 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2018, as well as Federal Minister of Defence f ...

, Stephan Mayer and

Heiko Maas Heiko Josef Maas (; born 19 September 1966) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs (2018–2021) and as the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protectio ...

Other activities

Corporate boards

Messe Frankfurt Messe Frankfurt () is the world's largest trade fair, congress and event organizer with its own exhibition grounds. The organisation has 2,500 employees at some 30 locations, generating annual sales of around €661 million. Its services inclu ...

, Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

* Sports Medicine Institute Frankfurt (SMI), Member of the Board of Trustees * Hessische Feuerwehrstiftung, Chairman

Political positions

Beuth was criticized by the opposition parties in the Landtag of Hesse in 2016 in the aftermath of the

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as the tabloid ''

Bild ''Bild'' (or ''Bild-Zeitung'', ; ) is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper ''Bild am Sonntag'' ("''Bild on Sunday''") is published instead, which ...

'' reported on confidential documents of the State Office of Criminal Investigation ("Landeskriminalamt", LKA) which showed that the police had not reported on relevant offenses of refugees. Beuth is unusually strict in rejecting asylum applications, vetoing around 20% of applications approved by the

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Commission, while previous interior ministers Volker Bouffier und

Boris Rhein Boris Rhein (born 2 January 1972) is a German politician and the current Minister-President of Hesse. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he has been active in the politics of Hesse since the late 1990s. After being elected to th ...

vetoed around 1% and Joachim Herrmann in neighbouring Bavaria vetoed 2%.

References

External links

Peter Beuth
at the

Landtag of Hesse The Landtag of Hesse (german: link=no, Hessischer Landtag) is the unicameral parliament of the State of Hesse in the Federal Republic of Germany. It convenes in the Stadtschloss in Wiesbaden. As a legislature it is responsible for passing l ...

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