Max Straubinger

{{Short description|German politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}

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| name = Max Straubinger

| office = Member of the Bundestag

| image = File:Max Straubinger 2012.jpg

| caption = Max Straubinger in 2012

| term_start = 1994

| term_end = 2025

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1954|8|12}}

| birth_place = Simbach, Dingolfing-Landau, West Germany
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| party = CSU

| nationality = German

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Max Straubinger (born 12 August 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 1994 to 2025.

Political career

Straubinger first became a member of the Bundestag in the 1994 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/max-straubinger|title=Max Straubinger|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-23}} He was a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee for Food and Agriculture.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a11|title=German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a10|title=German Bundestag - Food and Agriculture|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}

In 2014, Straubinger co-chaired the CSU’s convention in Munich.Christian Deutschländer (15 December 2014), [https://www.merkur.de/politik/csu-parteitag-letzter-kraft-abgewuergt-4535563.html Erkälteter Seehofer würgt CSU-Parteitag einfach ab] Münchner Merkur.

In January 2024, Straubinger announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.Markus Schön (27 January 2024), [https://www.pnp.de/lokales/landkreis-rottal-inn/mdb-max-straubinger-csu-kandidiert-mehr-fuer-den-bundestag-15302819 Nach 31 Jahren ist Schluss: MdB Max Straubinger (CSU) kandidiert nicht mehr für den Bundestag] Passauer Neue Presse.

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