Michael Kauch

Michael Kauch (born 4 May 1967, in Dortmund) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party who served as Member of the Bundestag between 2003 and 2013.

Michael Kauch
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
2003–2013
ConstituencyFree Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born (1967-05-04) 4 May 1967
Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political party German:
Free Democratic Party
 EU:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Dortmund
OccupationPolitician

Early life and education

Kauch was born in Dortmund and attended the Helmholtz-Gymnasium. He studied economics at the University of Dortmund from 1986 to 1993.

Political career

Kauch became a member of the Free Democratic Party in Germany in 1989. On June 14, 2003 Kauch became a member of the Bundestag, taking the seat of Jürgen Möllemann who had deceased shortly before. Throughout his time in parliament, he was as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development. He also served as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on LGBT rights, organ transplantation and palliative care (2005-2009).

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the FDP and the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) following the 2009 federal elections, Kauch led the FDP delegation in the working group on environmental policy, agriculture and consumer protection; his counterpart of the CDU/CSU was Ilse Aigner.

In late 2018, Kauch announced that he would run for a parliamentary seat in the 2019 European elections.[1]

Other activities

Personal life

Kauch is openly gay.[2]

Notes
  1. Bernd Eyermann (November 17, 2018), Kleiner Parteitag der NRW-FDP in Bad Godesberg General-Anzeiger.
  2. Acht Homos im neuen Bundestag, Queer.de, 2005-09-19, retrieved 2007-09-17 (German)
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