The new CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak. Here you can find answers to questions about the party, career, resume, wife, parents, and more.
Update from 11. December:
The newly elected CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak leaves his post as Chairman of the young Union, with immediate effect, to rest. The Ziemiak announced on Tuesday in Berlin. “To work as the Secretary-General on the renewal of the party and at the same time be Chairman of the Junge Union, from my point of view, two incompatible activities,” he explained to the rationale.
Ziemiak was elected on Saturday at the Federal party conference in Hamburg, on a proposal of the new CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-karrenbauer in his new party office web. “That with me for the first time, an active member of the young Union to the Secretary-General of the CDU, was elected fills me with humility – this choice is also an award for the Young Union and their role within the party,” said the 33-Year-old.
The claim of the young Union it was always, “to his thorn in the flesh” and the Union “programmatically”, highlighted Ziemiak. A new Chairman of the Junior organization will now be on a extraordinary German state Parliament of the young Union in the spring chosen.
Paul Ziemiak: New CDU General Secretary at the portrait wife, parents, Young Union
the head of The Union youth organization Young Union (JU), Paul Ziemiak, is the new CDU General Secretary. The around 1000 delegates at the Hamburg party conference elected him to the proposal of the new CDU-Chairman, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Saturday, with only 62.8 percent – a significant shock. Ziemiak (33) said after his election: “I thank you for this honest result.”
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The new CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak
Ziemiak is considered to be representative of the conservative wing of the CDU and the friend of the Minister of health, Jens Spahn (38). His appeal is an attempt Kramp is likely to be a cart-maker, the different camps of the party. Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Familiar of the long-standing Chairman, Angela Merkel, and is considered to be a representative of a political course of the middle of it. Yet on the eve of the party tags Ziemiak in front of members of the Junge Union had, according to participants, that he will not vote in the Chairman election for Kramp-karrenbauer.
Paul Ziemiak moved with the parents from Poland to Germany
Ziemiak was born in 1985 in Szczecin, Poland and moved to his home in 1988 with his parents and his older brother as immigrants to North Rhine-Westphalia. First of all, the family ended up in an immigrants camp, soon his parents found work.
Paul Ziemiak: a family, a wife and a child
Paul Ziemiak graduated from high school and began to study in Münster and Osnabrück law, but made no statements. He then studied corporate communication. Before he became a Congressman, he worked as a communication consultant in an Winxbet international accounting firm. Pauk Ziemiak is married and has a young son.
16-years Paul Ziemiak joined the CDU, and subsequently assumed various posts – first circle – then at the country level. In 2014, the surprise coup, he managed to: In a battle candidacy, he won the election of the Chairman of the young Union. As head of the largest political youth organization in Germany and Europe he is a member of the Federal Board of the CDU. 2017 Ziemiak was finally chosen his constituency in Herne and Bochum to Parliament in Berlin.
Paul Ziemiak comes from humble beginnings
Ziemiak is characterized by the fact that from simple beginnings, worked. “No matter where you were born, no matter whether your father has studied or is your mother a house wife, if you work hard, you can achieve it, that must be the message of the Junge Union”, is quoted from his candidate’s speech to the JU-presidency.
some it is regarded as a contradiction of Poland coming, the married father of a young son, is a sharp critic of the refugee policy of Angela Merkel. Ziemiak also worked with the fact that Spahn at the Federal party Congress in 2016, the decision to double continued to pass by, a conservative broadside against the Chancellor.
Also interesting: Seehofer Kramp-Karrenbauer has dedicated his first Tweet
In the application of speech under Ziemiak runs an unfortunate error
In his application speech, the 33 has filed-Year-old a clear commitment to classic conservative values. He called for a renewal of the party with a clear price and a clear language. “We must be the party of the rule of law”. To the AfD migrant voters he wanted to get back, “with a clear commitment to this country”.
Ziemiak the need for a systematic deportation of terrorist threat, mistook, in his remarks, however, the case of Tunisia deported a suspected Ex-bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, Sami A., with the bombers from the Berlin Breitscheidtplatz, anise Amri.
In the social debate, it should not always only super and Hartz IV . “Normal families, those that are hardworking in this country,” would have to be the focus, he said.
Ziemiak gave Kramp-Karrenbauer first of all, a basket
The new Chairman, reported on Saturday the delegates, they have offered Ziemiak the Post of the Secretary-General on Friday evening again and it was accepted. It is now, not yesterday, but the future of the party, said Ziemiak on Saturday in his application speech. “I am, because it’s this party,” he said. “It is now important to renew the party with a clear price and a clear language.”
so Far, Kramp-karrenbauer held the office of Secretary-General itself, their choice for the new party Chairman, a replacement was required.
Paul Ziemiak: nasty rumor has been circulating in the CDU
Explosive: Ziemiak know, that Kramp-Karrenbauer wool to make him Secretary-General. Therefore, he had ensured that a citizen of Saarland at the ballot gets more votes than Friedrich Merz, would say evil voices. Spicy this is because Ziemiak is considered to be a close friend of Jens Spahn and also, just like Friedrich Merz from the Sauerland region originates. That’s why he should feel obligated to actually the two opposite loyalty.
“In the space of the allegation, he was just run of the office due to the political adversary over”, writes the mirror. Spread this rumor of Merz had been followers. This show, “how is the mood after the victory Kramp poisoned-cart-Builder”.
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