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In February 2018, [[Angela Merkel]] nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU.<ref name="auto1"/> In the capacity, she managed the party and oversaw election campaigns.<ref>Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs (19 February 2018), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-19/merkel-names-loyalist-to-key-party-post-amid-succession-rumors Merkel Sets Up Potential Successor With Key Party Appointment] [[Bloomberg News]].</ref> On 26 February 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected general secretary at the CDU party conference, with 98.87% of the delegate votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/cdu-parteitag-kramp-karrenbauer-mit-grosser-mehrheit-zur-cdu-generalsekretaerin-gewaehlt-1.3883118|title=Kramp-Karrenbauer mit großer Mehrheit zur CDU-Generalsekretärin gewählt|first1=Barbara Galaktionow, Sebastian Gierke, Matthias|last1=Kolb|first2=Benedikt|last2=Peters|date=26 February 2018|publisher=|via=Sueddeutsche.de}}</ref>
In February 2018, [[Angela Merkel]] nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU.<ref name="auto1"/> In the capacity, she managed the party and oversaw election campaigns.<ref>Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs (19 February 2018), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-19/merkel-names-loyalist-to-key-party-post-amid-succession-rumors Merkel Sets Up Potential Successor With Key Party Appointment] [[Bloomberg News]].</ref> On 26 February 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected general secretary at the CDU party conference, with 98.87% of the delegate votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/cdu-parteitag-kramp-karrenbauer-mit-grosser-mehrheit-zur-cdu-generalsekretaerin-gewaehlt-1.3883118|title=Kramp-Karrenbauer mit großer Mehrheit zur CDU-Generalsekretärin gewählt|first1=Barbara Galaktionow, Sebastian Gierke, Matthias|last1=Kolb|first2=Benedikt|last2=Peters|date=26 February 2018|publisher=|via=Sueddeutsche.de}}</ref>


===Leader of the Christian Democratic Union, 2018–present===
===Leader of the Christian Democratic Union, 2018–present=== ===this article has been prepared and checked weeks before aunti angie left, ein schelm wer böses dabei denkt===
On 7 December 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as new party leader of the CDU with 517 votes out of 999 in the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, 2018|Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election]] at the party conference in Hamburg.<ref name="faz1">{{cite news |title=Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ist neue Vorsitzende der CDU |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/liveblog-die-cdu-waehlt-einen-neuen-vorsitzenden-15929379.html|language=German |accessdate=7 December 2018 |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|date=7 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Merkel's choice elected ruling party leader |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46487246 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=7 December 2018 |date=7 December 2018}}</ref>
On 7 December 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as new party leader of the CDU with 517 votes out of 999 in the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, 2018|Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election]] at the party conference in Hamburg.<ref name="faz1">{{cite news |title=Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ist neue Vorsitzende der CDU |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/liveblog-die-cdu-waehlt-einen-neuen-vorsitzenden-15929379.html|language=German |accessdate=7 December 2018 |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|date=7 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Merkel's choice elected ruling party leader |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46487246 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=7 December 2018 |date=7 December 2018}}</ref>


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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 December 2018
Preceded byAngela Merkel
General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union
In office
26 February 2018 – 7 December 2018
LeaderAngela Merkel
Preceded byPeter Tauber
Succeeded byVacant
Minister President of the Saarland
In office
10 August 2011 – 28 February 2018
DeputyChristoph Hartmann
Peter Jacoby (Acting)
Heiko Maas
Anke Rehlinger
Preceded byPeter Müller
Succeeded byTobias Hans
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union in the Saarland
In office
28 May 2011 – 19 October 2018
Landtag LeaderKlaus Meiser
Tobias Hans
Alexander Funk
Preceded byPeter Müller
Succeeded byTobias Hans
Member of the Landtag of Saarland
In office
5 September 1999 – 1 March 2018
ConstituencySaarbrücken (1999–2004)
Party list (2004–18)
Member of the Bundestag
In office
1 March 1998 – 26 October 1998
ConstituencyParty list
Personal details
Born
Annegret Kramp

(1962-08-09) 9 August 1962 (age 62)
Völklingen, Saarbrücken, Saarland, West Germany
Political partyChristian Democratic Union
Spouse
Helmut Karrenbauer
​
(m. 1984)​
Children3
Alma materSaarland University
University of Trier

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (born 9 August 1962), commonly referred to by her initials AKK,[1] is a German CDU politician who has served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union since 2018. She was chief minister of Saarland from 2011 to 2018,[2] making her the first woman to lead the government of Saarland and the fourth woman to head a German state government. From February to December 2018, she was general secretary of the CDU.

She was elected CDU party leader on 7 December 2018 following Angela Merkel's retirement from that role.

Early life and education

A headmaster’s daughter,[3] Kramp-Karrenbauer is from a Catholic family. She initially wanted to be a midwife and considered becoming a school teacher,[3] but in 1984 began studying political science and law at University of Trier and Saarland University, earning a master's degree in political science in 1990.[4] From 1991 to 1998 she served as a policy officer for CDU Saarland, and in 1990 advised Peter Müller in his capacities as head of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saarland and as chief minister.

Political career

In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced another member in the Bundestag (the lower house of the national parliament) for about seven months before losing that seat in the national elections the same year.[3]

Between 2000 and 2004, Kramp-Karrenbauer has served as state minister for internal affairs in the government of chief minister Peter Müller; she was the first woman to hold that office in Germany.[5]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal election, Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the CDU–CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart.

Chief minister of Saarland, 2011–2018

In January 2011, Kramp-Karrenbauer was named as Müller's successor, who became a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.[5]

In January 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer ended a coalition that included the right-leaning Free Democratic Party (FDP), and blamed the party for “dismantling itself.”[6] She said that her three-party coalition – including the Greens as well as the FDP and her own CDU – had lost the necessary “trust, stability and capacity to act” with the liberals. Under Kramp-Karrenbauer’s leadership, the CDU won the state election soon after, in what was widely regarded the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis;[7] meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2 percent of the vote.[6]

At the national level, Kramp-Karrenbauer also served as Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2014. She continues to be a member of the German-French Friendship Group that was set up by the upper chambers of the French and German national parliaments — the German Bundesrat and the French Senate. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, she serves on the Committee on Cultural Affairs; the Committee on Foreign Affairs; and on the Committee on Defence.

Kramp-Karrenbauer was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention to elect the president of Germany in 2012 and 2017. In the negotiations to form a so-called grand coalition (Große Koalition) following the 2013 federal elections, she was part of the CDU–CSU delegation’s leadership team for a short time following her tenure.

Under Kramp-Karrenbauer’s leadership, the CDU won 40.7% of the vote in the 2017 state elections, up from 35.2% in 2012.[8] At the national level, in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel she led the working group on education policy, alongside Stefan Müller, Manuela Schwesig, and Hubertus Heil.

General secretary of the CDU, 2018

In February 2018, Angela Merkel nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU.[4] In the capacity, she managed the party and oversaw election campaigns.[9] On 26 February 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected general secretary at the CDU party conference, with 98.87% of the delegate votes.[10]

Leader of the Christian Democratic Union, 2018–present=== ===this article has been prepared and checked weeks before aunti angie left, ein schelm wer böses dabei denkt

On 7 December 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected as new party leader of the CDU with 517 votes out of 999 in the Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election at the party conference in Hamburg.[11][12]

Political positions

Kramp-Karrenbauer is widely perceived as a ideological outlier in the CDU.[4] She is perceived as an ally of Angela Merkel, and has been described as socially conservative but on the left-wing of the CDU on economic policy.[13]

When the Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota for supervisory boards to the Bundesrat in 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats (the SPD), voting in favor of the draft legislation; in doing so, she supported an initiative opposed by Chancellor Angela Merkel and state governments controlled by the CDU.[14]

Amid her party’s campaign for the 2013 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 53 percent, setting off a fierce debate in her party. In her view, Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder had gone too far by reducing the top rate from 53% to 42% in the 1990s.[15] In May 2014, she was among leading members of Merkel’s CDU who called for reductions to offset fiscal drag – the automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket.[16]

When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favor of tax equality for same-sex couples in 2013, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples, stating: "The traditional family unit is the core of not only Germany but all nations".[17] In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that "if we open up [the definition of marriage] to become a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or between more than two people, or even marriage between humans and animals."

Kramp-Karrenbauer supported Angela Merkel's refugee policies and her decision to let more than a million[citation needed] migrants into Germany in 2015-16, many fleeing wars in the Middle East.[18]

Kramp-Karrenbauer criticized German-supported Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would allow Germany to effectively double the amount of gas it imports from Russia, saying that Nord Stream 2 "is not just an economic project but a political one".[19]

Personal life

Kramp-Karrenbauer is married and has three sons.[20] Her husband Helmut, a mining engineer, stayed home to bring up their children as she pursued her political career.[4] Kramp-Karrenbauer has lived her whole life in Püttlingen.[3]

An avid reader and self-described AC/DC fan,[21] Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks French and continues to take lessons to improve her command of the language.[22]

Other activities

References

  1. ^ Angela Merkel Starts Grooming Successors, and One Stands Out, The New York Times
  2. ^ Saarland. "Ministerpräsident - Saarland.de". www.saarland.de.
  3. ^ a b c d Michelle Martin (26 February 2018), Unassuming "Mini-Merkel" in pole position to succeed German chancellor Reuters.
  4. ^ a b c d Guy Chazan (21 February 2018), ‘Mini-Merkel’ moves up to Germany’s political big league Financial Times.
  5. ^ a b Siobhán Dowling (25 January 2011), Letter from Berlin: Germany's New Generation of Female Political Leaders Der Spiegel.
  6. ^ a b Anthony Czuczka and Brian Parkin (16 April 2012), Merkel Seen Turning to Euro Bond-Backing SPD to Win in 2013 Bloomberg News.
  7. ^ Anthony Czuczka and Brian Parkin (26 March 2012), Merkel’s Party Wins Saarland State in Show of Crisis Backing Bloomberg News.
  8. ^ Paul Carrel and Hakan Erdem (26 March 2017), Merkel's conservatives win Saarland vote in boost for national campaign Reuters.
  9. ^ Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs (19 February 2018), Merkel Sets Up Potential Successor With Key Party Appointment Bloomberg News.
  10. ^ Kolb, Barbara Galaktionow, Sebastian Gierke, Matthias; Peters, Benedikt (26 February 2018). "Kramp-Karrenbauer mit großer Mehrheit zur CDU-Generalsekretärin gewählt" – via Sueddeutsche.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ist neue Vorsitzende der CDU" (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  12. ^ "Merkel's choice elected ruling party leader". BBC News. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  13. ^ Emma Anderson (6 December 2018). "How Merkel's successor could change the political landscape (or not)". Politico. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  14. ^ Markus Dettmer, Peter Müller and René Pfister (23 April 2013), Rebel in the Ranks: Gutsy Minister Gives Glimpse of Life After Merkel Der Spiegel.
  15. ^ Noah Barkin (24 March 2013), Merkel ally backs double-digit hike in top tax rate Reuters.
  16. ^ Stefan Wagstyl (8 May 2014), Angela Merkel sees no ‘room for manoeuvre’ on tax cuts Financial Times.
  17. ^ Melanie Amann, Dietmar Hipp and Peter Müller (11 June 2013), Vater and Vater: Gay Adoption Debate Flusters Conservatives Der Spiegel.
  18. ^ "Merkel gives pivotal job to conservative Catholic, sparking succession talk". Handelsblatt. 19 February 2018.
  19. ^ "Frontrunners to succeed Merkel raise questions over Russian pipeline". Financial Times. 3 December 2018.
  20. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 August 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  21. ^ Leon Mangasarian (23 May 2013), German SPD Seen by Merkel Party Leader Turning to Left Bloomberg News.
  22. ^ Leon Mangasarian (23 May 2013), Strained Franco-German Ties Worry Merkel Party Saarland Premier Bloomberg News.
  23. ^ WM-Kuratorium unter Vorsitz von Dr. Thomas Bach FIFA, press release of 30 September 2008.

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