President of the Bundesrat Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
What was the position of Peter Harry Carstensen between Jun 2006 and Aug 2006?
Peter Harry Carstensen Peter Harry Carstensen ( born 12 March 1947 ) is a German politician , in the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party . From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein , serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2005/06 . Early life , education and career . Carstensen was born in Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog/Nordstrand , on the North Sea coast of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein . He passed his Abitur in 1966 and worked in agriculture before beginning a course of study in agronomy in 1968 , finishing in 1973 as a qualified engineer . During his studies Carstensen became a member of the Landsmannschaft Troglodytia im Coburger Convent and did not leave the organisation until 1998 . In 1976 he passed the Second State Examination ( Zweites Staatsexamen ) to become a teacher , following which he was employed as a teacher of agriculture at the Bredstedt Agricultural School and also as an economics adviser in the Agricultural Ministry of Schleswig-Holstein until 1983 . Family . Peter Harry Carstensen is widowed and has two daughters . His younger daughter is the ceramicist Anja-Christina Carstensen . In August 2004 the Bild newspaper hunted for a new wife with Carstensen’s agreement - a decision that he later regretted . On his 60th birthday , Carstensen publicly announced his new relationship with Sandra Thomsen , a lawyer born in 1971 . Two and a half years later — on 31 December 2009 — the two were married in the Friesenstube of the Island Hotel Arfsten in Wrixum . Political career . Carstensen has been a member of the CDU since 1971 . From 1986 to 1992 he was leader of the local CDU in the Nordfriesland district , becoming leader on 2 June 2002 . Member of Parliament , 1983–2005 . From 1983 Carstensen was a member of the Bundestag . From 1994 to 2002 he was chairman of the committee for Nutrition , Agriculture and Forestry ( after the renaming of the corresponding ministry in 2001 the committee became responsible for Consumer Protection , Nutrition and Agriculture ) . In his last parliamentary term he was a full member of the committee . From October 2002 Carstensen was chairman of the CDU/CSU working party for Consumer Protection , Nutrition and Agriculture in the Bundestag . Peter Harry Carstensen was the representative of Nordfriesland – Dithmarschen Nord , receiving 44.3% of all votes cast in the 2005 election . Carstensen left the Bundestag on 20 April 2005 . He has been a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein since 2005 . Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein , 2005–2012 . Carstensen was the CDUs candidate for premier of Schleswig-Holstein in the state election of 20 February 2005 ; he led the CDU to its best result since Uwe Barschel’s resignation in 1987 with 40.2% of all votes cast , making the CDU the strongest party in the state parliament for the first time since 1983 . However , the coalition of the CDU and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) failed to obtain a majority by some 700 votes . The Social Democrat ( SPD ) office-holder Heide Simonis thus tried to form a minority cabinet of the SPD and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ( the Green party ) tolerated by the Danish minority party SSW . From 1 March to 27 April 2005 Carstensen was leader of the CDU in the state parliament . In the vote to decide the premier of Schleswig-Holstein in the opening session of the state parliament on 17 March 2005 incumbent Heide Simonis ( SPD ) did not receive the required majority . Subsequently successful negotiations between the SPD and CDU led to the formation of a grand coalition between SPD and CDU . On 27 April 2005 Carstensen was finally elected premier of the state of Schleswig-Holstein with a majority of 54 votes ( out of the grand coalition’s 59 ) . In February 2009 , Carstensen and Mayor Ole von Beust of Hamburg agreed on a €13 billion bailout of state-owned shipping financier HSH Nordbank . The two states were forced to intervene after the SoFFin fund , which had been set up by the federal government in 2008 to stabilize the financial markets , said it could not help out HSH Nordbank until it got rid of all its bad debts . In July 2009 Carstensen announced that he would seek early state elections as a result of ongoing quarrels within the coalition government . After the Elections of 27 September 2009 Carstensen was reelected on 27 October 2009 . Carstensen has also been President of the Bundesrat , Germanys upper house of parliament . He served as a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2010 and 2012 . Political positions . Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018 , Carstensen publicly endorsed Friedrich Merz to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair . Recognition . Carstensen was awarded the Order of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Bundesverdienstkreuz ) in 1996 . References . This article draws heavily on the in the German-language Wikipedia . External links . - Welcome video from Minister-President Peter Harry Carstensen at the Schleswig-Holstein website - Message from Carstensen in his capacity as President of the Bundesrat - Schröder Party Loses Key State Poll , February 2005 article at Deutsche Welle on the state election - Official website ( in German )