Paul Lehrieder
{{Short description|German politician (born 1959)}}
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| office = Member of the Bundestag for Würzburg
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| term_start = 2005
| term_end = 2025
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|11|20}}
| birth_place = Ochsenfurt, West Germany
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| party = CSU
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Paul Lehrieder (born 20 November 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 2005 to 2025, representing Würzburg.
Political career
Lehrieder first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/paul-lehrieder|title=Paul Lehrieder|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-23}} He was a member of the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a20|title=German Bundestag - Tourism|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a06|title=German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}
In addition to his committee assignments, Lehrieder was part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South Asia.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Lehrieder was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on labor policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen and Andrea Nahles. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on families, women, seniors and youth, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz, Angelika Niebler and Katarina Barley.
In early 2024, Lehrieder announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.Daniel Friedrich Sturm, Karin Christmann, Christiane Rebhan and Caspar Schwietering (18 March 2024), [https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/abschied-aus-dem-parlament-diese-abgeordneten-gehen-vor-der-bundestagswahl-freiwillig-11377981.html Abschied aus dem Parlament: Diese Abgeordneten gehen vor der Bundestagswahl freiwillig] Der Tagesspiegel.
Political positions
In June 2017, Lehrieder voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article166099805/Diese-Unionsabgeordneten-stimmten-fuer-die-Ehe-fuer-alle.html Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle] Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.paul-lehrieder.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/lehrieder_paul-521542 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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