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Altmaier has been a member of the Bundestag since 1994. When the Bundestag created a committee to examine whether then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and others in the governing SPD party inflated economic figures before the 2002 federal elections to hide a growing budget deficit, he was chosen by his parliamentary group to lead the inquiry. | Altmaier has been a member of the Bundestag since 1994. When the Bundestag created a committee to examine whether then-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and others in the governing SPD party inflated economic figures before the 2002 federal elections to hide a growing budget deficit, he was chosen by his parliamentary group to lead the inquiry. | ||
From 2006 to 2011 Altmaier was president of Europa-Union Deutschland, the German section of the Union of European Federalists. | From 2006 to 2011 Altmaier was president of Europa-Union Deutschland, the German section of the Union of European Federalists. | ||
| − | Altmaier became a secretary of state in the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 2005. In this capacity, he publicly admitted in 2009 that Germany followed a request of the government of Saudi Arabia to grant influential cleric Abdullah Ibn Jibreen police protection in a Berlin hospital where he was undergoing heart treatment; the decision garnered sharp criticsm from the opposition parties, with the Green Party questioning why Germany hosted someone who “has called for the killing of Shiites [and] praised Osama bin Laden.” | + | Altmaier became a secretary of state in the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 2005. In this capacity, he publicly admitted in 2009 that Germany followed a request of the government of Saudi Arabia it to grant influential cleric Abdullah Ibn Jibreen police protection in a Berlin hospital where he was undergoing heart treatment; the decision garnered sharp criticsm from the opposition parties, with the Green Party questioning why Germany hosted someone who “has called for the killing of Shiites [and] praised Osama bin Laden.” |
== Education == | == Education == | ||
He studied law at Saarland University | He studied law at Saarland University | ||
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