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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new party Chairman of the CDU
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Tranquility must not be provincial. We take Püttlingen in the köller valley (in the district of Saarbrücken). 18.500 inhabitants, mild climate, good air, the coal mines Victoria 1+2 were closed many years ago. Also the disused railway station is now a cultural station, there is the Püttlinger literature path, in the summer, the town at the annual Festival, Rocco del Schlacko from the rocks. Püttlingen advertises with its medieval attractions such as Church of St. Martin, ruins of the castle Buber, Bach, as well as the witch’s tower. In the Latter were in the 16th century. Century 14 women from the bailiff, Thomas king dorfer held prisoner, accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake.
in the Meantime, it lives much better in Püttlingen. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (56) lives here with her family.
So what?! The would have asked a year ago, many of the German: Who is Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer? Today know most of the better. The woman in Püttlingen is the new CDU Chief and presumed successor of Angela Merkel in the Chancellery. A new government-mum from the Saarland? A younger Merkel, who is a bit more accessible, and more often smiles, but is similar to that of the Chancellor shield understands?
“Because Kramp-Karrenbauer has small rather than large, short hair, not excessive makeup, and as little fuss as possible to the own Person, some believe, including many men, they had a kind of a younger Merkel. Mini-Merkel is called by some. This is, however, as if White on Black say: see, for me, all the same”, so the “time” about Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Since 1981, in the CDU
One of their descriptions is: 56, the mother of three children, heterosexual, was the Saarland Minister-President. Fight name: AKK. Since 1981, in the CDU. There, Actors are the women’s Union, she got to hear earlier: “Oh, God, the a child brings in a party event.” Thus, it has characterized a regional observer of the “Allgemeine Zeitung” (Mainz).
she comes across as unpretentious up a Tomboy, but is a professional through and through. Since 1991, she works full-time in politics, was Chairman of the women’s Union in Saarland, CDU member of Parliament, Minister of the interior in the Saarland, Minister for family, women and Sport, Minister of culture, Minister of labour, family and social Affairs, state Chairman of their party and Prime Minister (seven years). Since February of 2018, it is the General Secretary of the CDU, the right (and left) Hand of the Chancellor. Your choice result of 98,87% was the highest approval of the Secretary-General in the history of the CDU.
None of your two competitors – Friedrich Merz, Jens Spahn – have achieved such a balance.
those Who underestimated you, gives you a great tactical and strategic error they are punished as a rule. Example: On The 6. In January 2012, the Saarland Minister President fired the FDP Minister of your Cabinet and finished in a spectacular way the first Jamaica-coalition in Germany. This step took place during the Stuttgart three-king meeting in celebration of the Federal FDP every year as a high mass. The a hit even with the Chancellor like a bomb. It means that the cool Merkel, who reigned and never yells, was engaged at the time of the FDP in Berlin on this day.
on the Other hand, AKK, is in the refugee, domestic and European policy in the same positions as Angela Merkel, are deemed to be particularly careful. As in the summer, a small war between the CDU and the CSU towards prevailed and expressions such as “sons of bitches, traitors, enemies,” and herflogen, kept the nerves. “She has done brilliantly,” says Schleswig-Holstein’s head of government, Daniel Günther.
While the Jamaica-negotiations, stressed Merkel, the Saar countries with the CSU-Mrs Barbara Stamm. The Chancellor knew that both friction – free and noiseless working on compromises, while colleagues such as Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) in front of the cameras provide the Show with loud verbal battles. A Jamaica-coalition in Berlin, I wanted her to stay. That FDP-Chef Christian Lindner had in the negotiations about to burst, she took him really bad. “Cry quieter, Lindner,” she commented sarcastically, as Lindner in the micro-phone whined, his FDP has been badly treated. Nevertheless, you would be ready to sit back down with the FDP to the table. It has to be governed.
This is your political role model
your role model in Heiner Geißler. And your Tone is rather soft, but almost never leaves any doubt. Her Motto: “I can, I will and I will.” So the title of the excellent AKK-biography, which was written by the journalists and Parliamentary correspondents Kristina Dunz and Eva Quad Beck.
And she has the winning Gene, without the politics nothing. In front of the Saarland state election in 2016, the ACC went as a clear favourite in the race. Then it was, hardly imaginable today, from the so-called Schulz-Hype of the SPD overrun. Suddenly, the survey decreased values, but ACC kept the rest. You ban the Turkish politicians ‘ appearances in the Saarland (which is not intended by the way), and praised her coalition partner, the SPD, took a possible defeat of their cap – and prior to the election. And you won with 40.7 percent. AKK ended abruptly the Schulz-Hype – ruled the SPD.
So the ACC grew to
it comes from the Catholic center of their party, not from the outside, such as Angela Merkel. AKK is a from the inside, a child of the CDU (West). She has picked up on the corresponding reflexes of the young and knows how (and who) to classify it. Born in Völklingen, a former centre of the Saarland, heavy industry, grew up in the five kilometers away in Püttlingen. In a strictly Catholic family Marsbahis (six children), mother house wife, father is a special education teacher.
“It’s Anne,” as the mother calls you, wants to be a teacher. Or A Midwife. The child reads a lot, complains mother, who is waiting for a Wash. To father hums: “Let you read.”
high school in Völklingen, then (due to a former teacher glut) studies of political science and law in Trier and Saarbrücken, as she is married. She has a crush on early with 21 in mining engineering, Helmut karrenbauer, also from Püttlingen, a man with the stature of a performance athlete. He liked her right off the bat, and later you say: “The eye eats.” Such a sentence would never from Angela Merkel about their Mann Prof. Joachim listen to sour.
The three sons of Tobias, Laurien and Julian come between 1988 and 1998 to the world. In 1990, makes it an exam, a year later, she is policy and planning officer of the Saar-CDU, 1999, the personal assistant of Peter Müller, the Chairman of the regional CDU and later Prime Minister of the Saarland. The career takes its course.
she puts value on family
However, the ACC places great value on to be used as a typical family man perceived. Your husband takes parental leave, later, he gives up his Job as a climber in the mine, taking care of the family and keeps her back, while his wife, first as Minister, then as Prime Minister – has ruled the country.
you know the small, everyday low blows of family life, for example: “In every poor school note – the bad Conscience for the working woman.” As a politician, she fights – in contrast to Angela Merkel for a quota for women and mothers pension: “a long-term goal must be that women can be priests.”
man Asks for the focus of your life, immediately comes the answer: Puttlingen! As there is no Alternative. The proverbial Saarland homeland has so internalized also AKK: “Dehemm is dehemm.”
your party friends rave about the liability of this woman. In March 2017, a JU Delegation from the Rhineland-Palatinate helps to glue the night before the Saarland state election until four o’clock in the morning, posters in the Saarland. AKK provides to the young people immediately to stay in your house in Püttlingen, Breakfast included. Of a such as Friedrich Merz is something so difficult to imagine.
After their election to the CDU General Secretary, she commutes between Berlin and the Saarland. You omitted the transition money that would it is entitled as a former Prime Minister, as it does, after all, more than 33,000 euros.
This Commuting between Berlin and the Saarland prepares your Helmut Worry, he thinks it’s all too much for you. 11. Of January 2018, it seems that his fears be confirmed. On the eve of you had your new year’s reception in Saarbrücken, then you need negotiations to Berlin to the Grand coalition -. However, because of the night, not a plane, takes you to the 700-kilometre-long route of the official car (with a driver and Bodyguards).
extract from the AKK-biography of Kristina Dunz and Eva Quad Beck: “Helmut Karrenbauer staring at his phone. Four missed calls, Two from his wife, and two by the chief of security. It is 6.15 PM. What he would give now, if he would not keep the law. He was, however, that it is still in the middle of the night to Berlin. 700 kilometres. After such a long day… but That’s not all madness, is to be thanked it anyway, he is convinced. (…) Now, this early in the Morning, he chooses their phone number without success. It is clear that Because of what happened.”
“no One is irreplaceable”
To 4.22 at the severity of the service-BMW of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on the A10, 30 kilometers from Berlin, in a Highway with a Truck collided. What looked so bad, had, fortunately, no bad. AKK came up with a whiplash injury to the hospital, got a neck brace and missed the last round of Negotiations in Berlin. The “picture on Sunday” she said: “it was bitter, but it made me realize: You are not irreplaceable.”
a Few weeks later, she was back to the Old, and appeared in the Saarland carnival. As always, as Gretel, the housekeeper in the country tags. With plaid headscarf, apron and broom. In the broadest Saar dialect, you talked about your political secrets, a Form of exuberance, which would be a Angela Merkel unthinkable.
if you look at AKK longer, can be read in your most controlled, friendly face thoroughly trains per day travelling from archness and female Kapriziosität. She loves striking glasses – and wearing also like shorter skirts. And their foul-mouthed, and sometimes even sassy hairstyle has become a trademark. For Udo Walz (74), Germany’s most famous hairdresser, is no longer AKK to stop on the way to the Chancellery. “Your hair looks excellent, you must have a very good hairdresser. Out of a possible ten points you’ll get from me ten.”
The man needs to know. After all, he was the one Angela Merkel, styled the Chancellor.
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