Eduard Oswald is one of the Vice Presidents of the German Bundestag

Bundestag

The Bundestag is a federal legislative body in Germany. In practice Germany is governed by a bicameral legislature, of which the Bundestag serves as the lower house and the Bundesrat the upper house. The Bundestag is established by the German Basic Law of 1949, as the successor to the earlier...

. A member of the Christian Social Union

Christian Social Union of Bavaria

The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It operates only in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party, the Christian Democratic Union , operates in the other 15 states of Germany...

 he was nominated by the CDU/CSU

CDU/CSU

CDU/CSU, unofficially also referred to as the Union parties or the Union, is the name of the Bundestag parliamentary faction comprising the Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria , considered to be sister parties...

 parliamentary faction to succeed Gerda Hasselfeldt

Gerda Hasselfeldt

Gerda Hasselfeldt is a Bavarian politician who served as Health Minister for one year before being succeeded by Horst Seehofer....

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Political career

A member of the CSU since 1966, he was a deputy in the Augsburg county council from 1972 to 1998 and a member of the Bavarian Landtag

Landtag of Bavaria

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 from 1978 to 1986. He is a member of the executive committee of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag and served as its Parliamentary Secretary from May 1992 to January 1998. Since 1987 he as been a directly elected member of the Bundestag since 1987 representing the constituency of Augsburg-Land in Bavaria. In the last Kohl

Helmut Kohl

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998...

cabinet he was Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development. During his tenure before his election as Vice President of the Bundestag he served on several important committees including transport, economics and technology and finance.