Peter Beuth

Since 18 January 2014 he is State Minister of the Interior and for Sports in the government of Minister-President Volker Bouffier of Hesse.

After high school diploma in 1988 in Taunusstein Beuth worked as an assistant for media planning.

In March 2009 Beuth was elected Secretary General of the CDU Hesse under the leadership of party chairman Roland Koch.

[1] In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Beuth was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led by Thomas de Maizière, Stephan Mayer and Heiko Maas.

Beuth was criticized by the opposition parties in the Landtag of Hesse in 2016 in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany as the tabloid Bild reported on confidential documents of the State Office of Criminal Investigation ("Landeskriminalamt", LKA) which showed that the police had not reported on relevant offenses of refugees.