Christean Wagner

[2] On 15 November 2005, Wagner was elected to be the next chairman of the CDU fraction in the Hesse legislature as successor to Franz Josef Jung.

He is chairman of the Zentrums gegen Vertreibungen (Centre Against Expulsions) since 2018, where he succeeded its founder Erika Steinbach, who left the CDU over migration issues to join the right populist Alternative for Germany.

[8] He advocates like Walter Wallmann for the freedom of parents to choose to send their children to a specific school type.

[12] After Norbert Röttgen was fired in 2012 as federal minister for the environment, Wagner stated that he would like to see a sharper profile for the party: „Wir müssen uns auf unser C [christlich] besinnen und klare wirtschaftsliberale Akzente setzen."

(We should think about the 'C' [Christian] and put clear emphasis on economic liberalism)[13] Wagner supported in 2007, together with Roland Koch, the publicly criticised project of Karin Wolff to introduce creationism as a component of biology classes.

Many public outlets saw in this proposal an attempt to introduce creationism in schools of Hesse, after Wolff had previously stated to see no contradiction between evolution theory and the explanation in the Bible.