Bartholomäus Kalb

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Bartholomäus Kalb
Member of the Bundestag
In office
1987–2017
Personal details
Born (1949-07-13) July 13, 1949 (age 74)
Mamming, Germany
Political partyCSU
Children2
OccupationPolitician

Bartholomäus Kalb (born 13 July 1949 in Mamming, Bavaria, West Germany) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).[1][2]

Political career[edit]

In 1972, Kalb was elected to the municipal council of Künzing.

From 1978 to 2002 he held the office of second mayor of the municipality. From 1978 to 1986, he was a member of the Landtag of Bavaria.

From 1987 until 2017, Kalb served as a member of the Bundestag, elected directly from the Deggendorf constituency. He was a member of the Committee on Budgets of the Bundestag, a member of the Audit Committee (a subcommittee of the Committee on Budgets), a deputy member of the Finance Committee, as well as a member of the Federal Funding body.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in 2009, Kalb was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on taxes and finances, led by Thomas de Maizière and Hermann Otto Solms. Later, in the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, he was again part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on financial policy and the national budget, this time led by Wolfgang Schäuble and Olaf Scholz.

Other activities[edit]

Political positions[edit]

In June 2017, Kalb voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[5]

Personal life[edit]

Kalb is a Roman Catholic; he is married and has two children.

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