Education
University of Cologne.
University of Cologne.
A lawyer by profession, Bosbach is a partner at Winter, Jansen & Lamsfuß in Bergisch Gladbach. In August 2011, Bosbach became the first senior Christian Democratic Union Member of Parliament to say he would not vote for legal changes to allow the European Financial Stability Facility to buy sovereign bonds on the market. He later criticized the permanent rescue mechanism – called European Stability Mechanism – was a step toward a European transfer union.
In 2012, he told German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche that Greece should leave the euro region to overhaul its economy.
Following the 2013 federal elections, Bosbach was part of the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) team in the negotiations with the Social Democratic Party of Germany on a coalition agreement. On February 27, 2015, Bosbach voted against the Merkel government’s proposal for a four-month extension of Greece"s bailout.
In doing so, he joined a record number of 29 dissenters from the Christian Democratic Union/Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) parliamentary group who expressed skepticism about whether the Greek government under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras could be trusted to deliver on its reform pledges. On July 17, he voted against the government’s proposal to negotiate a third bailout for Greece.
In response to the resulting discussions with fellow conservative MPs, he resigned from his office as Chairman of the Committee on Internal Affairs.
Bosbach has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag since 1994, representing Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, and the deputy parliamentary group leader of his party since 2000.
Committee on Internal Affairs. ZDF Television Council]
Football Club Köln, Member of the Advisory Board
Deutsche Telekom, Member of the Data Privacy Advisory Board
Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", Member of the Board of Trustees (2000-2006)
Securitas Deutschland, Member of the Supervisory Board (1998-2002)
Signal Iduna Allgemeine Versicherung, Member of the Supervisory Board
Ursula Lübbe Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees (2005-2009)
ZDF, Member of the Television Board.