Volker Kauder

Volker Kauder
Kauder in 2015
Leader of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag
In office 21 November 2005 – 25 September 2018
First Deputy	Peter Ramsauer Hans-Peter Friedrich Gerda Hasselfeldt Alexander Dobrindt
Chief Whip	Norbert Röttgen Peter Altmaier Michael Grosse-Brömer
Preceded by	Angela Merkel
Succeeded by	Ralph Brinkhaus
General Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union
In office 22 December 2004 – 5 December 2005
Leader	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Laurenz Meyer
Succeeded by	Ronald Pofalla
Chief Whip of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag
In office 17 October 2002 – 25 January 2005
Leader	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Hans-Peter Repnik
Succeeded by	Norbert Röttgen
Member of the Bundestag for Rottweil – Tuttlingen
In office 20 December 1990 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by	Franz Sauter
Succeeded by	Maria-Lena Weiss
Personal details
Born	(1949-09-03) 3 September 1949 (age 74) Hoffenheim, West Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union
Spouse	Elisabeth Biechele
Education	University of Freiburg

Volker Kauder (born 3 September 1949) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as parliamentary group leader of the ruling CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2018,^[1] during which he was frequently referred to as the "right hand" of Chancellor Angela Merkel.^[2]