Hans-Peter Friedrich

Who is Hans-Peter Friedrich?

Hans-Peter Friedrich is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union. He has been a member of the Bundestag of Germany since 1998 and has represented the single member district of Hof since 2002. He was deputy chairman of the investigating committee for party donations from 1999 until 2002 and for electoral fraud from 2002 until 2004. From 2002 until 2005 he was also judicial counselor of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In 2005 he became deputy chairman of the parliamentary group for the portfolio of housing and development. On 3 March 2011 he succeeded Thomas de Maizière as Federal Minister of the Interior and held this ministry until 17 December 2013 when he was appointed Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture. Friedrich resigned from that position in February 2014.