Edmund Stoiber

Edmund Stoiber is a German politican?, presidential minister of Bavaria and chairman of the CSU. He was born on 29th September 1941 in Oberaudorf? in the District of Rosenheim?. He is a lawyer and since 1974 a member of local Government in Bavaria. From 1978 to 1982/83 he was general secretary of the CSU. He lead the Bavarian office of state from 1982 to 1986 as undersecretary of state and from 1986 to 1988 as minister of state. As Bavarian minister of the interior he stood up for the maintenance of internal security by using the powers of the state. He also demanded a decrease of the asylum rights (which is not so strong in Germany as, for example, in the USA).

In May of 1993 the Bavarian Land parliament choose him for ministerpresident in which office he succeeded [Max Streibl]?).

Mr. Stoiber supported a recent failed attempt in the German Constitutional Court to forbid the extension of many of the rights enjoyed by married couples to homosexuals in Germany.

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