Peter Hintze (25 April 1950 – 26 November 2016) was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German

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from 1990 until his death in 2016. From 2013 until 2016, Hintze was one of the six Vice Presidents of the

. He had previously been federal chairman of the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/ CSU from 1990 to 1992 and general secretary of the CDU from 1992 to 1998. He was also Vice President of the

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Political career

Hintze served as a member of the German Bundestag from the 1990 federal election. Between 1990 and 1992, he chaired the Evangelical Working Group of the CDU/CSU. In 1991/1992, Hintze briefly served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the

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under minister

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in the fourth cabinet of

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. During the national election campaign in 1994 Hintze was the driving force behind the ''Rote-Socken-Kampagne'' ("Red Socks Campaign"), a campaign which was directed against the left-wing PDS and the alleged possibility of a coalition between the PDS and the

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. It is believed that the ''Rote-Socken-Kampagne'' contributed to the electoral victory of the CDU and

. In autumn 2005, the Bundestagswahl 2005 ended the

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era;

became chancellor of a Union/SPD-cabinet. From 2005 to 2013, Hintze served as Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology under ministers Michael Glos (2005–2009); Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (2009); Rainer Brüderle (2009–2011); and Philipp Rösler (2011–2013) in the first and

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cabinets of

. Between 2007 and 2013, he was also the government’s Coordinator of Aerospace Policy. From 2006, Hintze led the Bundestag group of CDU parliamentarians from

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, the largest delegation within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In the negotiations to form a

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of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2009 federal elections, Hintze was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on foreign affairs, defense and development policy, led by Franz Josef Jung (CSU) and

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(FDP). Later, in the negotiations to form a ''

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'' of Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD following the 2013 German elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on

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and the

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, led by Herbert Reul and

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. In his capacity as vice-president, he was a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. In 2015, Hintze appointed Diana Kinnert as his parliamentary chief of staff, which made her the youngest chief of staff in the history of the Bundestag. Hintze died from

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on 26 November 2016.CDU-Politiker Peter Hintze gestorben
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'', 27 November 2016. He was 66.

Recognition

* 2009 – Officier de la Légion d’Honneur * 2012 – Robert Schuman Medal

References

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