Tim Peters (born 1973) is a

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political scientist, lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). A resident of

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, he is an official of the

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of the

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. As a political scientist, he is known as a student of

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in the tradition of German

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research, and has published works on the political tradition of the former Party of Democratic Socialism. He was one of the leading figures within the

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during the early 2000s and is currently chairman of the

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branch of the CDU, the party's only branch outside Germany. He ran unsuccessfully as a CDU candidate for the

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in the

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Early life

Peters was born in

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, Germany.

Career

Peters studied law at

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and the

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; he obtained a French ''licence en droit'' in 1998 and passed the German first state examination in law in 2001. He worked for a law firm and in the office of the legal advisor of the

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faction in the German

, Ronald Pofalla.politikszene
. ''Politik & Kommunikation'' 158 (2007), p. 1 He then studied political science and was affiliated with the ''Politischer Extremismus und Parteien'' research environment. He obtained his PhD with a dissertation on the anti-fascist tradition of the Party of Democratic Socialism, titled ''Der Antifaschismus der PDS: Ursachen und Wirkungen''; his doctoral advisor was

. It was also published as a book by

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under the title ''Der Antifaschismus der PDS aus antiextremistischer Sicht''.Tim Peters: ''Der Antifaschismus der PDS aus antiextremistischer Sicht'', Wiesbaden 2006, p. 230. He worked as a legal advisor in the Brussels office of

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and as a ''Rechtsreferendar'' with the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany and the European Commission in Brussels, and passed his second state examination in law in 2007, fully qualifying as a lawyer. He has lived in Brussels since the early to mid 2000s; until 2012 he worked as an advisor for industrial policy in the Brussels office of the Confederation of Germany Industry and the

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, the German Business Representation Brussels. He is now an official of the

of the

Political activity

Peters joined the

in Hamburg at age 14,Sibylle Salewski:
Unikate: Der Konservative
. ''

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.'' 10 April 2001, p. 28. and later became the chairman of Junge Union in

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. He was also active in the Association of Christian Democratic Students. In 2000, he was elected as the "Internet Chancellor" by youth and students on the Internet platform dol2day; he ran as "General T". In the

he ran as a candidate for the CDU in Berlin, but was not elected. He founded the Brussels branch of the

and became chairman of CDU in Brussels in 2013.Neuer Vorsitzender gewählt
, 22 March 2013.

Selected bibliography

* ''Der Antifaschismus der PDS aus antiextremistischer Sicht'' (= ''Forschung Politik''). With a preface by

, Wiesbaden 2006,

References

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