The acronym CSU may refer to:

• Constant speed unit - a mechanical device on an aircraft propeller that regulates engine speed by automatically changing pitch.
• Concordia Student Union
• Channel Service Unit - a WAN equivalent of a network interface card.
• Christian Social Union of Bavaria (Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern), a political party in Bavaria, Germany.
• Crime Scene Unit - in some police groups this refers to crime scene investigators who respond to a crime scene.
• Care and Separation Unit - the name given to solitary confinement in some prisons in the United Kingdom
• C Start Up - in computing, the initial start up code for compiled C (and C-based languages). See also CRT for C Run-Time.
• ČSÚ (Český statistický úřad), Czech Statistical Office
• CSU is the ICAO airline designator for Chari Aviation Services, Chad

Universities and university systems[link]

• Cagayan State University system (Philippines)
• Caraga State University system (Philippines)
• California State University system (U.S.A.)
• Central South University, Hunan (China)
• Central State University, Ohio (U.S.A.)
• Charles Sturt University, (Australia)
• Charleston Southern University Charleston, South Carolina (U.S.A.)
• Chicago State University Chicago, Illinois (U.S.A.)
• Clayton State University, Georgia, (U.S.A.)
• Cleveland State University, Ohio (U.S.A.)
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (U.S.A.)
• Columbus State University, Georgia, (U.S.A.)
• Connecticut State University System (U.S.A.)
• Chelyabinsk State University (Russia)

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Peter Gauweiler.

Peter Gauweiler (born June 22, 1949 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German politician, and a member of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) in the German Bundestag. Since 2006, Gauweiler is the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Foreign cultural and educational policies of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag. From 1990 to 1994, he was Bavarian State Minister for Regional Development and Environment.

In 2008, Gauweiler challenged the German ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, claiming the treaty unconstitutional. Gauweiler launched a similar challenge to the European Constitution in 2005, but after its failure the Constitutional Court made no ruling and a presidential signature was never given.^[1][2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Peter Gauweiler, personal website
• Dr. Peter Gauweiler, CDU/CSU, German Bundestag
• Dr. Peter Gauweiler Dr. Peter Gauweiler, Official Facebook fan page
• Germany's Lisbon Treaty Ruling: Brussels Put Firmly in the Back Seat Spiegel International article on how Dr. Peter Gauweiler has persuaded Germany's highest court to restrict the scope and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.

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Horst Seehofer
President of the Bundesrat
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 November 2011
Preceded by	Hannelore Kraft
Minister-President of Bavaria
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 October 2008
Deputy	Martin Zeil
Preceded by	Günther Beckstein
Chairman of the Christian Social Union
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 October 2008
Preceded by	Erwin Huber
Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
In office 22 November 2005 – 27 October 2008
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Preceded by	Renate Künast
Succeeded by	Ilse Aigner
Federal Minister of Health
In office 6 May 1992 – 26 October 1998
Chancellor	Helmut Kohl
Preceded by	Gerda Hasselfeldt
Succeeded by	Andrea Fischer
Personal details
Born	(1949-07-04) 4 July 1949 (age 62) Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Political party	Christian Social Union
Spouse(s)	Karin Seehofer
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	Official website

Horst Lorenz Seehofer (born 4 July 1949) is a German politician (CSU). He served as the Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 and as the Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2008. In October 2008 he became chairman of the CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria.^[1]

He is married to Karin Seehofer.

Federal Minister and Member of the Bundestag[link]

He has been a member of the Lower House of the German Parliament (Bundestag) in Germany since 1980. Horst Seehofer was Federal Minister for Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1998 in the cabinet of Helmut Kohl. He then became assistant chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group of the Bundestag in October 1998. Because of his disagreement with flat-rate contributions (Gesundheitsprämie) to the federal health insurance he resigned from his post on 22 November 2004 but remained the assistant chairman of the CSU and kept his mandate. Since joining the Bundestag Horst Seehofer has kept his mandate as a directly elected delegate (Direktkandidat) from his Constituency Ingolstadt. At the 2005 federal election he received 65.9 percent of the votes in his district. Seehofer was appointed Federal Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in the cabinet of Angela Merkel and stayed in office from 2005 to 2008.

Minister-President in Bavaria[link]

After his party lost more than 17% of the popular vote in the Bavarian state elections of 2008, incumbent Minister-President Günther Beckstein and Chairman of the CSU, Erwin Huber, announced their resignations.^[2][3] Seehofer was quickly proposed as their successor. At a party convention on 25 October he was affirmed as the new Chairman of the CSU with 90% of the votes, and on 27 October he was elected Minister-President by the Landtag with votes from the Free Democratic Party, forming the first coalition government in Bavaria since 1962.

During the term 2011–2012, Seehofer serves as President of the German Bundesrat. As such, he acted as acting head of state between Christian Wulff's resignation on 17 February 2012^{[4][5][6][7][8]} and the election of Joachim Gauck on 18 March 2012.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Horst Seehofer

• Official Site of Seehofer
• Official Bavarian government website Biography of Horst Seehofer (German)

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Gregor Gysi
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 18th September 2005
Constituency	Berlin Treptow – Köpenick
Personal details
Born	January 16, 1948 East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	Die Linke

Dr. Gregor Gysi (German pronunciation: [ˈɡiːzi]; born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney and key politician of the socialist left-wing political party The Left (Die Linke). He played an important role in the end of communist rule in East Germany in 1989^{[citation needed]}, and was a main figure in the post-reunification Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He is well known for his rhetoric talent and is considered one of the best German public speakers.^[1]

Family background[link]

Gysi was born in East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany. His father, Klaus Gysi, was a high-ranking official in East Germany, and had been Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973. His mother, Irene, was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to the British writer Doris Lessing during his exile in Southern Rhodesia. The surname "Gysi" is of Swiss-German origin.^[2] Both of his parents were of part Jewish ancestry; his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal great-grandfathers.^[2][3] One of his maternal great-grandmothers was Russian.^[2]

His sister, Gabriele, is an actress, who left East Germany in 1985. Today, she is chief dramaturge at the Volksbühne in Berlin.

Career[link]

Gysi's political career started in the then-ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) of East Germany, to which he was admitted in 1967. In 1971 he became a licensed attorney, and during the 1970s and 1980s defended several prominent dissidents, including Rudolf Bahro, Robert Havemann, Ulrike Poppe, and Bärbel Bohley.

Gregor Gysi (November 1989)

In addition to his legal work, Gysi emerged as one of East Germany's leading Gorbachev-inspired political reformists within the SED, especially towards the end of the 1980s. In 1989, he and a group of lawyers presented a counter-draft to the government's Travel Bill, which authorised mass public demonstrations. This led to a rally on 4 November in which he spoke and called for various reforms, including free elections. In December 1989, he became a member of a special SED party session investigating official corruption and abuse of power.

He led the transformation of the SED into a democratic socialist party which included the quick resignation of all hardliners from the party's leadership; initially renamed the Socialist Unity Party - Party of Democratic Socialism (SED-PDS), it later became simply the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). Gysi served as its chairman starting in 1990, and in March 1990 was elected to the Volkskammer in the first free election of that body, serving there until it was dissolved upon German reunification on 3 October 1990. In the first post-reunification all-German elections, he was elected to the Bundestag, and served there until 2000. He remained chairman of the PDS through 1998, and then from 1998 to 2000 served as chairman of the party's parliamentary group.

In 1992 allegations were brought against him of having been an "unofficial collaborator" (Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter, IM) or informant of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (the Stasi). He denied these allegations, and the matter was largely dropped due to his parliamentary immunity. In 1995 the Hamburg regional court ruled in Gysi's favour in a complaint against Bärbel Bohley, Gysi's former client, who had accused him of Stasi collaboration. However, the allegations were raised again in 1996, and this time the Bundestag voted to revoke his immunity and proceed with an investigation. In 1998 the Bundestag's immunity committee concluded that Gysi had been a collaborator with the Stasi from 1978 to 1989 under the name IM Notar, and fined him 8,000 Deutsche Marks. However, both the Free Democratic Party and his own PDS disputed the verdict, and Gysi appealed against the finding. Despite the affair, he retained his seat in the Bundestag in the 1998 elections.

In 2000 he resigned as chairman of the PDS's parliamentary group, but continued as an active member of the party. Following the victory in Berlin's 2001 municipal elections of a coalition of the PDS and the more moderate Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), he was elected Senator for Economics, Labour, and Women's Issues and Deputy Mayor. He emphasised practical issues and advocated the reinstitution of some of what he sees as the better aspects of East Germany's system, such as extended child-care hours and a longer school day. After a scandal involving his use of airline "bonus miles" he had acquired on trips as a Bundestag member, he resigned on 31 July 2002 from the Berlin city government. The resignation was a blow to his public "can-do" image, but he has recovered from that to some extent in the wake of increasing public opposition to a number of new policies of the federal government, like the Hartz reforms lowering unemployment benefits to the levels of mere subsistence welfare, which he strongly opposes.

Oskar Lafontaine (left) and Gregor Gysi, election poster, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, 2005

In late 2004 he survived brain surgery and a heart attack. Formerly a heavy smoker, Gysi quit smoking after the crisis on his doctors' advice.

Gysi remained the PDS undisputed front man in many people's minds and continued to appear in public. In May 2005, when Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced plans to call an early election in September, many prominent PDS leaders including chair Lothar Bisky called on Gysi to front their campaign. He was a lead candidate of the PDS, winning direct election to the Bundestag for the Berlin Treptow – Köpenick constituency. The PDS fought the election in an alliance with the new western-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG), under the new name The Left Party.PDS, with Gysi at times sharing a platform with WASG leader Oskar Lafontaine, former finance minister and formerly party leader of the SPD. In June 2007, the PDS and WASG formally merged to form a united party called The Left.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gregor Gysi

• Will Germany Go Left of the Left? by Markus Deggerich, Der Spiegel, Sept 25 2009
• Portrait at the website of the parliamentary group of the Left Party
• Biography at Deutsches Historisches Museum

Alexander Dobrindt
Alexander Dobrindt
Executive Secretary of the C.S.U.  Germany
Chancellor	Angela Merkel
Personal details
Nationality	German
Political party	Christian Social Union of Bavaria
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	alexander-dobrindt.de

Alexander Dobrindt (born June 7, 1970 in Peißenberg, Bavaria) is a German politician, that since 2009 serves as the Executive Secretary of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

Early Life[link]

M.P. Alexander Dobrindt graduated from the Weilheim Highschool in 1989 and continued his studies in the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich finishing with a Master of Arts in Sociology in 1995. After obtaining his degree, he worked in an engineering company as a Financial Director from 1996 to 2001 and as a Managing Director from 2001 to 2005.

Political Career[link]

He joined the Junge Union (Junior party of the C.S.U.) in 1986 and 4 years later the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He has been a member of the German National Parliament (Bundestag) since 2002 that he won the direct mandate in the Parliamentary Constituency of Weilheim gathering the 59,4% of the votes^[1]. Since 2009, he serves as the District-Chairman of the C.S.U. Weilheim-Schongau.

Personal Life[link]

M.P. Alexander Dobrindt has been married since 2006.

See also[link]

• List of Bavarian Christian Social Union politicians
• Christian Social Union of Bavaria

References[link]

External Links[link]

• Official Website of M.P. Alexander Dobrindt (German)
• M.P.Alexander Dobrindt in the Official Website of the German Parliament (German)
• Interview of M.P. Alexander Dobrindt in Abendblatt (German)

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