Horst Seehofer
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Horst Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician who served as Head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) from 2008 to 2020, and Minister of the Interior, Building, and Community since 2018, under Chancellor Angela Merkel.
He served as Minister President of Bavaria from 2008 to 2012; between 2011 and 2012. He served as Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998, then Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection in Angela Merkel's cabinet from 2005 to 2008.
He became the head of the CSU and Bavaria's 18th Minister President in October 2008.
He served as President of the Bundesrat and ex officio deputy to German President Angela Merkel from 1 November 2011 to October 29, 2012.
Seehofer, a vocal critic of President Christian Wulff's asylum policy and a strong promoter of a federal limit on the number of refugees the German government takes in after his resignation on February 17, 2012 and before the assassination of Joachim Gauck as the government's successor on March 18, 2012.
Early life and education
Seehofer began working as a civil servant in Ingolstadt's local government after secondary school.
Personal life
Seehofer married Karin Starck in 1996. They live in Gerolfing, an Ingolstadt suburb. Seehofer, a father of three, failed in his CSU leadership bid in 2007 when it emerged that he had a daughter born out of wedlock, from an extramarital affair with a much younger member of the German Bundestag. He opted to return to his wife after a period of indecision.
Seehofer died of a severe myocarditis in 2002. When he collapsed during a speech at a party function in early 2015, his wellbeing became a point of public discussion once more.
Political career
Seehofer served as a member of the German federal parliament (Bundestag) as a directly elected delegate (Direktkandidat) from his constituency Ingolstadt from 1980 to 2008. He received 69% of the votes in his district during the 2005 federal election.
Seehofer, the federal Minister of Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's cabinet.
Following a review of how the government handled the cases of thousands of hemophiliacs who were infected with HIV in the 1980s, Seehofer ordered that the Federal Health Agency in Germany be dissolved in 1993. The Health Ministry took over the agency's administration. Seehofer also announced that Germany would contribute to an emergency fund for victims of the scandal. He was under intense pressure to resign because of the crisis.
Helmut Kohl's failed to run for a fifth term in the 1998 federal election in the opposition Seehofer was elected deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group of the Bundestag, which was led by Kohl's replacement Wolfgang Schäuble at the time. Edmund Stoiber included Seehofer in his shadow cabinet for the Christian Democrats' failed attempt to depose President Gerhard Schröder. In negotiating the cross-party health bill of 2003, he was Health Minister Ulla Schmidt's counterpart. He resigned from his leadership role in the federal health care sector on November 22, 2004, but retained his seat as deputy chairman and retained his seat despite his differences with CDU leader Angela Merkel on flat-rate contributions (Gesundheitsprämie) to the federal health insurance.
Seehofer was named Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Consumer Protection in Angela Merkel's cabinet and served in office from 2005 to 2008.
After his party lost more than 17% of the popular vote in Bavarian state elections of 2008, incoming Minister-President Günther Beckstein and Chairman Erwin Huber resigned. Seehofer was quickly appointed as their replacement. He was confirmed the new Chairman of the CSU with 90 percent of the vote on October 25th and the first coalition government in Bavaria since 1962.
Seehofer served as President of the German Bundesrat from 2011 to 2012. He served as Acting Head of State from Christian Wulff's resignation in February 2012 to Joachim Gauck's election on March 18, 2012.
The State of Bavaria took to the Federal Constitutional Court in 2012 in order to contest the constitutionality of Germany's post-World War II system of financial redistribution among the country's 16 states. Bavaria, a beneficiary of the program until 1988, owes more in 2011 than it did in the 40 years that it had been a net recipient. Another perpeta contributor, the State of Hesse, was involved in the lawsuit.
The CSU secured a landslide victory in the 2013 state elections, under Seehofer's leadership, boosting the conservative party's ascension to the federal elections next week. He later led the negotiations to establish a national coalition government together with Angela Merkel and Sigmar Gabriel. Seehofer was elected chairman of the United Kingdom by a historic 95.3 percent in late 2013.
Seehofer, a younger brother, was under pressure from younger rivals in early 2015, and he resigned at the next state elections in 2018. Later this year, when he was chosen the fifth time as the head of the CSU, he received 87.2 percent of the vote, some 8 percent behind the 2013 results.
Seehofer said in August 2016 that he may break with party unity and run a separate campaign in the 2017 national elections, a step widely seen as an attempt to hold pressure on Merkel to shift to a more nimmigrant policy in the European migration crisis. He also confirmed that he will continue to serve as the head of CSU beyond 2018. Seehofer resigned after the CSU's share of the Bavarian vote fell by ten percentage points to below 39 percent in 2013. On December 4, 2017, he declared himself to resign as Prime Minister President and not run as the leading candidate in the 2018 state elections; rather, he said he would hand over the reins to Markus Söder in the first quarter of 2018.
Seehofer revealed on March 1 that if the SPD party members vote in favour of the coalition, he would be in Merkel's cabinet. He took over the position of Interior Minister. Seehofer's main aim is to have quicker asylum procedures and more consistent deportations. He wants a "zero tolerance" approach to criminals. Seehofer said on March 15 that he disagreed with the belief that Islam is part of Germany, a topic that has also been discussed in Germany, since Federal President Christian Wulff said in a 2010 address that Islam was part of Germany. According to him, some public holidays correspond to specific church holidays.
No matter whether these countries agreed to remove migrants who have already been deported or have an entry ban, Seehofer's master plan would force police to turn away all migrants who have registered elsewhere in the EU. Merkel was worried that delivering migrants back to their countries without reaching a multilateral European agreement would jeopardize the European Union's stability. Seehofer backed down from a threat to bypass her in the migrant crisis, limiting her until she returns from attempts to find a solution at a European level on July 1. During these weeks, the media was speculated not only on a government shutdown but also on the dissolution of the CDU/CSU partnership, which includes the CSU in Bavaria and the CDU in the remaining 15 states. It would have been that the CSU will run for general elections over Germany, and that the CDU will run in Bavaria, something they had never attempted before.
Seehofer resigned because of the deal he had reached with EU countries as too little and sparked his resignation during a meeting of his party's executive, but he refused to accept it on July 1st. Seehofer and Merkel announced on the night of 2 July 2018 that they had sorted out their differences and decided to accept a compromise of tighter border control. Seehofer decided not to resign but to negotiate bilateral agreements with the respective countries' specific countries as a result of the deal. Seehofer was chastised for almost bringing the government down, but the monthly number of migrants affected by the program was in single figures.
Seehofer resigned after the 2021 European floods caused Germany's biggest natural disaster in more than a half-century, killing more than 170 people and thousands injured, triggering calls from opposition politicians.
