Volker Kauder (born 3 September 1949) is a German CDU politician. Since 2005 he has been the parliamentary group leader of the ruling CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag. Kauder is frequently referred to as the "right hand" of Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel.Kauder was born in Hoffenheim. A student of the Hegau-Gymnasium in Singen, he became a member of Junge Union in the age of 17. In 1991, he became Secretary General of Baden-Würtemberg CDU and subsequently served as the party’s campaign manager for the state elections in 1992, 1996 and 2001. He served in this office until the resignation of party chairman Erwin Teufel in 2005. Wikipedia
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