Education
Baldauf studied law and administrative sciences in Mannheim and Heidelberg, and passed his first and second Staatsexamen in 1991 and 1994 respectively.
Baldauf studied law and administrative sciences in Mannheim and Heidelberg, and passed his first and second Staatsexamen in 1991 and 1994 respectively.
In 1995 he joined a law firm in Frankenthal, and is now a lawyer and specialist in employment law. In 1994 he was elected to the City Council of Frankenthal. From 1999 to February 2007 Baldauf was chairman of the Christian Democratic Union Frankenthal district association, his successor was Sonja Schönherr.
In September 2008, Baldauf was confirmed by the delegates to the national party congress in the office as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union Rhineland-Palatinate.
Foreign the 2011 elections he proposed Julia Klöckner to oppose to the current Ministerpräsident Kurt Beck. However, his party lost the election and Baldauf stepped down as leader of the opposition to make way for Klöckner.
After his successful re-election in 2006 he was chairman of the Mainz parliament, and shortly thereafter, the party also elected him as chairman of the Christian Democratic Union Rhineland-Palatinate.
Baldauf became a member of the Christian Democratic Union in 1983, between 1992-1996 he was the chairman of the local Frankenthal chapter of the Junge Union.
