Robert Hochbaum

Robert Hochbaum is a politician of the Christian Democratic Union, one of the two big-tent political parties in Germany.

He was a member of the Bundestag from 2002 to 2017, by consecutively winning the Vogtlandkreis electoral district of Saxony in the federal elections of 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2013.

In 1982, he started working at the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, the Federal Employment Agency of Germany and became head of the job center in Auerbach (Vogtland) in 1991.

[1][2] He was a member of the Defense Committee, and chairman of the sub-committee "Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation" from 2005, saying that "Disarmament or arms control and the problem of the spread of chemical and nuclear weapons are playing an increasingly important role worldwide.

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