Michael Kauch

[1] On 14 June 2003 Kauch became a member of the Bundestag, taking the seat of Jürgen Möllemann who had deceased shortly before.

Throughout his time in parliament, he was as a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.

[2] In the negotiations to form a coalition government of the FDP and the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) following the 2009 federal elections, Kauch led the FDP delegation in the working group on environmental policy, agriculture and consumer protection; his counterpart of the CDU/CSU was Ilse Aigner.

[6] The FDP delegation made him its spokesperson in the aforementioned committees as well as in the areas of law, culture and LGBTI issues.

[7] He was shadow rapporteur for a legislative proposal to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented EU citizens in third countries.