Hans-Peter Uhl (5 August 1944 – 27 October 2019)[1] was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
[5] demanding adjustments to Europe's border-free travel regime, the Schengen Agreement, to allow the re-introduction of border checks under specified conditions.
In the context of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures, German news magazine Focus cited Uhl as saying that U.S. contracting companies such as Cisco Systems, which manages much of the German armed forces' data, needed to be required by contract not to pass sensitive material to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
[6] At the same time, Uhl was a longstanding supporter of using telecommunications data retention by German authorities in order to monitor internet traffic and telephone conversations.
From 2014, Uhl was a member of the parliament's Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation.