Alois Glück () (born 24 January 1940) is a German

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of the

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Life and career

Glück was born in Hörzing in the district of

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. He started his political engagement in the Catholic Rural Youth Movement of Germany . After a journalistic career the skilled agriculturist was elected for the CSU in the

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in 1970. In 1986

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appointed him as a permanent secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for State Development and Environmental Questions, since 1988 he led the CSU Landtag fraction and from 1994 to 2007 the CSU district association

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. In 2003 he was selected to the Landtagspräsident (President of the Landtag). Since July 1999 Glück is additionally the chairman of the CSU principle commission. As such he operatively contributed to the development of strategic CSU position documents like "Aktive Bürgergesellschaft" (Active Commoners Society) and "Soziale Marktwirtschaft für das 21. Jahrhundert" (

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for the 21st Century). Apart from his political career Glück has accepted many honorary posts. Since 1983 he is a member of the ''Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken'' (Central Committee of German Catholics – and its president since 2009), the chairman of the ''

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Bayern'' (

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Bavaria), of the charity association Caritas Children's Village

Irschenberg Irschenberg is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in the German state of Bavaria, about southeast of Munich. It consists of numerous hamlets situated on the ''Irschenberg'' hill range. The hill is a notorious ascent of the Bundesautoba ...

Other activities

* ''Freundeskreis Abtei Frauenwörth'', Chairman of the Circle of Friends *

Hanns Seidel Foundation The Christian Social Union of Bavaria, CSU-associated Hanns Seidel Foundation (german: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung) is a German party-associated and taxpayer-money funded political research Foundation (charity), foundation. It was founded in November 19 ...

, Vice Chairman * ''ProChrist'', Member of the Board of Trustees * Freya von Moltke Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees * German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Member (2011-2016, appointed ad personam by

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References

External links

www.alois-glueck.de – Official website of Alois Glück
(German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gluck, Alois 1940 births Living people People from Traunstein (district) Christian Social Union in Bavaria politicians Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the Landtag of Bavaria