Peter Aumer

Peter Aumer (born 17 April 1976 in Regensburg) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) and a member of the Bundestag for the Regensburg constituency in eastern Bavaria. He sat in the 17th Bundestag from 27 October 2009 until 22 October 2013 and has been a member again since 24 October 2017, holding a direct mandate for the constituency.

At the federal election of 23 February 2025 he won constituency 232, Regensburg, with 81,105 first votes, 38.3 percent of the valid first votes, ahead of Carina Schießl of the Alternative for Germany on 17.9 percent. Turnout in the constituency was 84.7 percent. In 2009, when the seat was numbered 233, the city’s statistical report recorded 75,653 first votes (44.7 percent) for the CSU direct candidate, and Aumer took the Regensburg seat when the 17th Bundestag met. The federal returning officer’s final tables for constituency 233 give the CSU direct candidacy 78,858 first votes (40.1 percent) in 2017 and 69,842 (35.3 percent) in 2021, the two elections after which he again sat for Regensburg.

In the 21st Bundestag the parliament lists him as a full member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs, the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee, as Obmann on the Audit Committee, and as a deputy member of the Health Committee. In the CSU Landesgruppe of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group he is spokesperson for labour and social affairs, after serving as spokesperson for social security from 2022 to 2025.

The biography he filed with the Bundestag states that he trained as a tax clerk at the Fachoberschule Regensburg, studied business administration at the Fachhochschule Regensburg and took a part-time master’s degree at the Hochschule Weihenstephan, qualifying as a Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH) and an MBA, and that he worked in tax advice, auditing and at an energy-supply company. The same statement records that he is Roman Catholic, that he joined the CSU and its Young Union in 1996, and that he has chaired the CSU district association of Regensburg-Land since 2011. He has been a district councillor of Landkreis Regensburg since 2002 and a municipal councillor in Regenstauf, in the Upper Palatinate, from 2002 to 2014 and again from 2020; the Bundestag notes that these biographical details are the member’s own statements.

Early life, education and professional career

Schooling and vocational training

Peter Aumer was born on 17 April 1976 in Regensburg. The biography published by the German Bundestag states that its biographical details are the member’s own statements; on that basis it describes him as Roman Catholic and gives his pre-university education only in outline. It lists a vocational qualification as a Steuerfachgehilfe and attendance at the Fachoberschule Regensburg, then higher education. The CSU Landesgruppe prints the same sequence and the same note that the text rests on self-reporting. Neither account names a primary or intermediate school, an apprenticeship employer, or the years of the training, and neither places the tax-clerk qualification at the Fachoberschule; the two steps are listed separately.

The biography used during the 17th Bundestag, preserved as it stood in 2010 and in September 2013, used the wording “Berufsausbildung zum Steuerfachgehilfen; Fachoberschule Regensburg”. In that text he referred to Regenstauf, in the district of Regensburg, as his Heimatgemeinde. Published profiles do not otherwise describe his childhood.

University studies

A public XING profile identifying him as a member of the Bundestag lists study of business administration (Betriebswirtschaftslehre), with accounting and controlling as the focus, at the Fachhochschule Regensburg from October 1997 to October 2002. The alumni office of the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg records the same programme, a 2002 graduation, and the faculty as Business and Management, formerly Betriebswirtschaft. The parliamentary biography gives the degree as Diplom-Betriebswirt (FH); the CDU/CSU parliamentary group’s short entry uses the same title and the same birth date.

According to the university’s magazine Spektrum, the institution has been named the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg since 1 October 2013, after a Bavarian competition among universities of applied sciences for the title Technische Hochschule. In an interview on the alumni site, Aumer said the course had given him a closer understanding of economic relationships and practice in hearing other views and revising his own.

The Bundestag biography, again from his own statements, adds a part-time master’s course at the Hochschule Weihenstephan, completed with an MBA. The XING profile dates a course it titles Regionalmanagement at the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan from April 2006 to October 2008. The Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences records that in 2008 its leadership decided to rename the Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, so that the Triesdorf site would appear in the name, and that a master’s programme in Regionalmanagement was added to the curriculum in the same year.

Work in tax advice, auditing and energy

In the alumni interview Aumer said that after the diploma he worked for several years in tax advice and auditing and in his parents’ business. The XING profile names the tax and audit employer as Rödl & Partner, from July 2002 to March 2007, and lists a separate entry for “Max Aumer” from 2007, marked on the profile as continuing. Those firm names and dates do not appear in the current parliamentary biography.

During the 17th electoral term the Bundestag biography described him as then self-employed in the parental firm. The disclosure of his occupation before he entered parliament, published with that biography, listed him as a wholesaler (Großhändler) at Max Aumer Süßwaren- und Spirituosenhandel in Regenstauf. Like the narrative biography, that notice rests on information supplied by the member; it was published by parliament under the rules on members’ outside interests.

The current Bundestag text, and the matching CSU Landesgruppe text, instead summarise his professional work as activity in tax advice and auditing and at an energy-supply company, which they do not name. The company functions on the present Bundestag page do not name that firm; the entries shown there are honorary roles. The wholesale business in the 17th-term disclosure is absent from those current biographical lines.

Local politics in Regenstauf and the district

Youth organisation and local party offices

Peter Aumer joined the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) and its youth organisation, the Junge Union, in 1996. From 1998 to 2009 he was local chairman of the Junge Union in Regenstauf, a market municipality in the Landkreis Regensburg in the Upper Palatinate, and from 2000 to 2011 he chaired the CSU local association in Ramspau. The two posts covered the period in which he first took council seats. Since 2011 he has also been chairman of the CSU district association for Regensburg-Land; in 2014 he stood as the CSU candidate for Landrat.

Municipal and district council

Aumer sat on the market council (Marktgemeinderat) of Regenstauf from 2002 to 2014 and again from 2020. From 2008 to 2010 he was third mayor and youth officer of the market town, honorary offices that overlapped the beginning of his first term in the Bundestag, which started in 2009. On the district council (Kreistag) of Landkreis Regensburg he has been a member continuously since 2002. From 2008 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the CSU group there. In March 2013 the group elected him chairman to succeed Albert Höchstetter, who had died; a statement circulated for the CSU recorded the change while Aumer was still a Bundestag member, and he kept the chair until 2017.

The 2014 Landrat election

The Landrat heads the district administration, based at the Landratsamt in the city of Regensburg. The city is a separate urban district and was not the electorate: the ballot was among citizens of the surrounding Landkreis. For the communal elections of 16 March 2014 the Bavarian statistical office stated the rule then applied: each voter had one vote; a candidate was elected only with more than half of the valid votes; otherwise the two with the most votes met in a runoff within 14 days, won by whichever received more valid votes.

Herbert Mirbeth of the CSU, who had taken 50.7 percent at the previous Landrat election, did not stand in 2014. Six candidates did. The office's preliminary count, published the day after the poll, listed 150,180 people entitled to vote and 94,239 voters, a turnout of 62.8 percent, compared with 64.7 percent at the previous election. Invalid ballots numbered 979, or 1.0 percent of those cast, leaving 93,260 valid votes. Tanja Schweiger, for the Free Voters of Bavaria (the Landesvereinigung, marked separately in the official tables from independent groups using similar names), received 40,280 votes, 43.2 percent. Aumer, the CSU candidate and by then a former member of the Bundestag, received 39,733 votes, 42.6 percent, 547 behind Schweiger. Paula Wolf of the Social Democratic Party of Germany had 6,245 votes (6.7 percent), Maria Scharfenberg of Alliance 90/The Greens 3,810 (4.1 percent), Klaus-Dieter Lang, standing as ÖDP/Parteifreie Umweltschützer for the Ecological Democratic Party, 2,207 (2.4 percent), and Stefan Potschaski of the Free Democratic Party 985 (1.1 percent). No candidate had an absolute majority. Schweiger and Aumer therefore went to a runoff on 30 March 2014. Reporting that cited the Landratsamt gave the same first-round shares to two decimal places, 43.19 and 42.60 percent, and noted that in the Kreistag election the same day the CSU remained the largest group, with just under 43 percent, ahead of the Free Voters on 25.09 percent.

The statistical office's preliminary runoff figures listed 150,058 eligible voters and 82,279 participants, a turnout of 54.8 percent, and 435 invalid ballots (0.5 percent). Schweiger received 49,828 votes (60.9 percent) and Aumer 32,016 (39.1 percent); the office marked Schweiger as elected on that preliminary count. A later compilation of who held office on 1 May 2014 records her share as 61.1 percent, the election day as 30 March 2014 and the start of the term as 1 May 2014. That report identifies her as a Diplom-Kauffrau and a member of the Bavarian Landtag, born in 1978, and gives the Landkreis a population of 184,652 on 31 March 2013. Aumer was not elected Landrat. He remained a district councillor and CSU group chairman until 2017, and he returned to the Regenstauf market council in 2020.

Bundestag elections and the Regensburg constituency

The 2009 mandate and the 2013 withdrawal

The Regensburg constituency for the Bundestag, then numbered 233, comprised the city of Regensburg and the whole surrounding Landkreis in the Upper Palatinate. On 28 February 2009 the Christian Social Union (CSU) nominated Peter Aumer of Regenstauf as its direct candidate. In a second ballot at Barbing town hall he received 93 of 158 delegate votes, to 65 for Christian Schlegl. He followed Maria Eichhorn, whose CSU candidacy had taken 53.0 percent of the constituency's first votes in 2005.

On 27 September 2009, turnout was 70.3 percent. Of 169,069 valid first votes, Aumer received 75,653, or 44.7 percent. Karl Söllner (SPD) received 35,207 (20.8 percent), Horst Meierhofer (FDP) 21,618 (12.8 percent), Jürgen Huber (Greens) 14,784 (8.7 percent) and Richard Spieß (Left) 10,514 (6.2 percent). List votes put the CSU on 42.5 percent, the SPD on 17.3, the FDP on 13.6, the Greens on 10.8 and the Left on 6.8. Meierhofer was also returned to the Bundestag.

Aumer did not stand in 2013 and was among the CSU members who left the Bundestag at that election. The CSU candidate, Philipp Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld, won constituency 233 with 82,648 first votes (48.5 percent); turnout was 69.1 percent. The SPD took 37,541 first votes (22.0 percent), the Greens 8.3 percent, the Free Voters 4.6, the FDP 4.0 and the AfD 3.7, the last of these not having stood there in 2009. Second votes were CSU 48.4 percent, SPD 19.3, Greens 9.2, FDP 4.6, AfD 4.1 and Free Voters 4.0.

Direct mandates from 2017 to 2025

Lerchenfeld did not defend the seat. On 26 November 2016 he withdrew his candidacy after criticising the party's internal conduct, and Aumer defeated Astrid Freudenstein by 81 votes to 78. In 2017 Aumer won constituency 233 with 78,858 first votes (40.1 percent) on a turnout of 78.6 percent. Dr. Tobias Hammerl (SPD) received 32,862 (16.7 percent), Armin Bauer (AfD) 23,275 (11.8), Stefan Schmidt (Greens) 18,343 (9.3), Tobias Gotthardt (Free Voters) 6.6, Ulrich Lechte (FDP) 6.2 and Irmgard Freihoffer (Left) 6.0. Second votes were CSU 37.8 percent, SPD 14.5, AfD 13.0, Greens 10.3 and FDP 9.0.

In 2021 his share fell to 35.3 percent (69,842 votes), still a direct mandate, with turnout at 80.2 percent. Dr. Carolin Wagner (SPD) was second with 32,850 (16.6 percent), ahead of Stefan Schmidt (Greens) on 30,333 (15.3), Rainer-Michael Rößler (Free Voters) on 9.1, Dieter Arnold (AfD) on 8.4 and Ulrich Lechte (FDP) on 7.0; Eva-Maria Schreiber (Left) took 3.0 percent. List votes narrowed the CSU lead to 30.9 percent, against SPD 17.4, Greens 16.2, FDP 9.5, AfD 8.8 and Free Voters 8.4.

On 20 September 2024 delegates of the city and Landkreis CSU associations renominated Aumer with 100 percent of the votes. On 23 February 2025, in constituency 232, he received 81,105 first votes (38.3 percent). Turnout was 84.7 percent of 250,984 eligible voters. Carina Schießl (AfD) was second with 37,964 votes (17.9 percent). Stefan Schmidt (Greens) had 27,741 (13.1 percent) and Dr. Carolin Wagner (SPD) 27,626 (13.0), then Regina Seebauer-Sperl (Free Voters, 5.3 percent), Sebastian Wanner (Left, 4.6), Ulrich Lechte (FDP, 2.5) and Irmgard Freihoffer of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (2.4). Second votes were CSU 35.7 percent, AfD 18.7, Greens 13.4, SPD 11.1, Left 7.0, Free Voters 4.9, FDP 3.5 and BSW 3.0.

Boundaries and political geography of the constituency

Through 2017, constituency 233 was the kreisfreie Stadt Regensburg and the entire Landkreis. In June 2020 the Bundestag moved the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Wörth an der Donau—Brennberg and Wörth an der Donau—into the Schwandorf constituency, then numbered 234 and otherwise made up of the districts of Cham and Schwandorf. The aim was to cut deviations from the average German population of a constituency. Onetz reported that Regensburg's deviation fell from 24.7 percent above a norm of 243,523 people to 22.1 percent, while Schwandorf's rose from 4.8 to 7.4 percent. The move was unpopular locally: reporting from Brennberg on 2021 election day described many residents as lastingly angered by what was called a forced transfer into the Schwandorf/Cham constituency.

For 2025 the municipal boundary was unchanged, but the number became 232. Population shifts moved one constituency from Saxony-Anhalt to Bavaria, and the numbers of former constituencies 72 to 255 each dropped by one, under the annex to the Twenty-seventh Act amending the Federal Elections Act of 7 March 2024. Constituency 232 is the city plus the Landkreis except Brennberg and Wörth an der Donau, which remain in constituency 233, Schwandorf. On 31 December 2023 it contained 40 municipalities, 1,389.8 square kilometres and 336,300 inhabitants (242 per square kilometre). City and Landkreis have not voted alike: in 2009 the Landkreis alone gave the CSU 45.7 percent of second votes, against 42.5 percent in the constituency as a whole.

Parliamentary committees and offices

Peter Aumer, a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who sits with the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, was a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013 and has been again since 2017. The archived biography for the 19th electoral term describes the earlier spell as membership in the 17th electoral term. The standing committees are the Bundestag’s preparatory decision-making bodies. Each full member has one vote in committee; deputy members may attend every sitting, but they may vote only when standing in for an absent full member of their own group. An Obmann or Obfrau is not the committee chair. Each group names one for a committee as the group leadership’s main contact; the Obleute help fix the group’s line, agree agendas and plan the committee’s work.

The seventeenth Bundestag

In a 2011 profile, the Bundestag’s internet editorial office described Aumer, then the directly elected member for the Regensburg constituency, as a full member of the Finance Committee and as that committee’s rapporteur for matters coming from Brussels. The same profile described him as a member of the Petitions Committee and of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development. The biographical note carried on the archived page for the 19th electoral term, which the Bundestag states is based on members’ own information, records that in the 17th term he was a member of that advisory council and a parliamentary secretary (Schriftführer).

Parliamentary secretaries are elected at the start of an electoral term. Two of them, one from a majority group and one from an opposition group, form the presiding board of a plenary sitting together with the President of the Bundestag or the vice-president in the chair. Their tasks include keeping the list of speakers and, in roll-call votes or elections by ballot, receiving and counting the papers.

Committees from 2017 to 2025

For the 19th electoral term, the archived list of memberships and offices names Aumer as a full member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and as a deputy member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. The mandate line records a direct seat for constituency 233, Regensburg. The labour committee constituted itself on 31 January 2018 with 46 full members; the Bundestag’s account of that sitting lists Aumer among the ordinary members from the CDU/CSU group.

For the 20th electoral term, the archived list names him a full member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs, the Committee on Tourism and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and Obmann of that subcommittee. The direct mandate is again given as constituency 233, Regensburg. A report dated 14 December 2021 on the labour committee’s constituting session lists him among the ordinary CDU/CSU members of a committee that then had 49 members, 13 of them from CDU/CSU. A Bundestag list of parliamentary-group boards in the 20th term, dated 12 July 2024, names him a deputy chair of the ASEAN parliamentary group, whose remit the list gives as Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Neither that term’s archived membership list nor the list for the 19th term records a seat on the Finance Committee or the Petitions Committee.

The twenty-first Bundestag

In the 21st electoral term the biography published by the Bundestag records a direct mandate for constituency 232, Regensburg, Bavaria. It lists him as a full member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs, the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee (Rechnungsprüfungsausschuss), as Obmann of the Audit Committee, and as a deputy member of the Health Committee. On 21 May 2025 the labour committee held its first sitting of the term; a Bundestag news item of that day places Aumer among 14 CDU/CSU full members of the 42-member committee. The Budget Committee constituted itself the same day, in a sitting led by Bundestag President Julia Klöckner. It has 42 members, and the report names Aumer among the 14 from CDU/CSU.

The Audit Committee has the organisational structures of a standing committee, and its members are at the same time members or deputy members of the Budget Committee. Where the Budget Committee is concerned above all with authorising funds, the Audit Committee follows the execution of expenditure, examines the Federation’s budgetary and economic management, and prepares the plenary’s discharge of the federal government on the basis of the remarks of the Bundesrechnungshof.

Labour and social policy

Basic income support and labour-market rules

On 19 May 2022, in the Bundestag’s second and third reading of the eleventh amendment to Book II of the Social Code, Aumer said the governing coalition was abandoning “Fordern und Fördern” out of ideology. He quoted the Federal Constitutional Court that cooperation duties legitimately aim to bring people into work and that sanctions to enforce them were not constitutionally objectionable, and he called the moratorium a regime in which sanctions were “nur noch eine Erinnerung”. FDP member Jens Teutrine replied that the bill still sanctioned missed appointments and kept reductions of 30 percent.

On 1 February 2024, in the labour-ministry budget debate, he took up Renate Köcher’s F.A.Z. phrase of a “demotivierte Gesellschaft” after the change to Bürgergeld, which Hubertus Heil had called the largest welfare-state reform in 20 years. Quoting CDU/CSU floor leader Friedrich Merz, he said performance is rewarded only if earnings stay sufficiently above benefits, and accused the government of drawing on contributors at the Federal Employment Agency and in pension insurance. SPD member Martin Rosemann interjected that the Union had financed the Mütterrente that way; Heil answered that social security held democracy together and that the higher minimum wage helped make work “the difference”.

On 16 October 2025, on an AfD motion to stop Bürgergeld for people sought by arrest warrant, Aumer said misuse must have consequences regardless of origin and called the reasoning “Hetze”. Green member Timon Dzienus called the coalition’s planned basic income a “Schlag ins Gesicht” and spoke of a Union “Sanktionsfetischismus”.

On 15 January 2026, the day of the first reading, the CSU Landesgruppe quoted Aumer that the “neue Grundsicherung” restored incentives: anyone able to work had to help improve their situation, while people unable to work for health reasons would still be supported, and repeated refusal of reasonable work should end benefits. The Bundestag passed the law on 5 March 2026 by 321 votes to 268, with two abstentions; Tagesschau reported that, for about 5.5 million recipients, the name Bürgergeld was to go and stricter rules were to apply in stages from 1 July 2026. CDU general secretary Carsten Linnemann said it restored “Fördern und Fordern”; AfD member Gerrit Huy said it would hardly relieve taxpayers, and Dzienus accused the coalition of pillorying the weakest.

Pensions, care and wages

On 16 October 2025, in the first reading of the bill to hold the pension level and equalise child-raising periods, Aumer described a 72-year-old woman with three children at a constituency surgery in Regensburg: completing the Mütterrente, he said, would credit three years per child and about 60 euros more a month. He called that a CSU “Herzensanliegen” for about 10 million women, because periods before and after 1992 would count alike, and quoted Markus Söder that raising children is worth as much as paid work. He backed a level of 48 percent until 2031, which he costed at an extra 23.9 billion euros in federal subsidy, against more than 60 billion euros he attributed to motions from Die Linke; Heidi Reichinnek said a wealth tax would pay for them. AfD member Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing called the package unfair to the young and put Mütterrente III at about 65 billion euros by 2040 and the safeguard at about 145 billion by 2040.

On 17 March 2026 he wrote that credited periods for new reduced-earning-capacity pensions had been lengthened since 2019, raising them by several hundred euros on average, and that pensions beginning in 2001–2018 received a supplement of 4.5 to 7.5 percent from December 2025. He pointed to the Commission on Social-State Reform’s recommendation to merge Books II and XII of the Social Code by 2027. On 12 October 2026 he called the Aktivrente an important step toward flexible retirement — citing about 9,000 Aktivrentner and a 3.2 percent rise in pensioners in work — and said people who cannot work physically until 67 needed protection in the labour ministry’s outstanding draft.

Aumer is not named in n-tv’s report of 3 August 2026 on pension points for family carers. Care commissioner Katrin Staffler said she was determined to avoid a cut in those points; Bavarian CSU floor leader Klaus Holetschek backed limited co-payments and more care at home. N-tv reported that a draft under Nina Warken had considered cutting pension contributions paid by the long-term care insurance — then up to 740 euros a month — to 70 percent for future claims, while Söder warned against reopening the coalition package.

On 3 March 2025, asked whether the Union would seek a minimum wage of at least 15 euros, Aumer wrote that the CSU stood by the statutory wage and an independent Mindestlohnkommission, that pay-setting belonged to the social partners, and that the party rejected a political rate in favour of lower taxes and contributions, an “Agenda für die Fleißigen”.

Spokesperson role in the CSU Landesgruppe

The CSU group in the Bundestag elected Aumer on 27 January 2022 as its policy spokesperson for social security. In July 2025 it assigned him labour and social affairs; a CSU biographical entry dates that role from 2025, after social security in 2022–2025. Radio Charivari reported on 12 March 2025 that he sat in the coalition working group on labour and social affairs, one of sixteen groups meant to record agreement between the Union and the SPD. The labour ministry later named him, with Marc Biadacz and Markus Reichel, to the CDU/CSU side of the parliamentary accompanying group of the Commission on Social-State Reform, which sat from September 2025 to January 2026.

Budget policy and public audit

In the 21st Bundestag, Peter Aumer of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), sitting with the CDU/CSU, is an ordinary member of the Budget Committee and an ordinary member and Obmann of its audit subcommittee, the Rechnungsprüfungsausschuss. For the 2025 budget the group named him its rapporteur for Einzelplan 15, the federal budget chapter of the Federal Ministry of Health.

Budget debates

In the 20th Bundestag Aumer spoke for the CDU/CSU on Einzelplan 11, the labour and social-affairs chapter, which carries the federal subsidy to statutory pension insurance. On 1 February 2024, in the second reading of the 2024 budget, he said the Scholz government was mixing contribution-financed wage-replacement benefits with tax-financed social benefits, at the Federal Employment Agency and in the pension insurance, and was drawing on contributors because costs had got out of hand. He said the CDU/CSU would reject the chapter because, in his view, it did not keep the welfare state both capable and reliable.

On 10 September 2024, in the first reading of the 2025 draft, he called the coalition a “Nach-uns-die-Sintflut-Koalition” (“after us, the deluge”) and said it was plundering the social-insurance funds rather than stabilising the welfare state. Citing the Deutsche Rentenversicherung, he said the coalition had since 2020 failed to honour federal subsidy commitments of €10 billion. The insurer’s September 2024 account put reductions in promised federal payments at about €10 billion over 2022–2027 and said contributors would bear them through a faster rise in the contribution rate. He also criticised a shift of €900 million from the federal budget onto the Federal Employment Agency as a further burden on contributors, and called the draft unrealistic, dishonest and a postponement of responsibility. His remarks then on the Bürgergeld belong with his labour and social policy.

On 11 July 2025 he spoke in the first reading of that year’s labour chapter, calling it the largest and saying budget policy was not a “Wunschkonzert” but responsibility for contributors’ and taxpayers’ money. Invoking Ludwig Erhard, he distinguished social security from state welfare, welcomed the Mütterrente and the Aktivrente as intergenerational fairness, and endorsed investment in growth, structural reform and consolidation.

With the group’s budget spokesman, Christian Haase, he said after the committee’s final sitting on the 2025 health chapter that further burdens on contributors, and higher federal subsidies, would not solve structural problems in statutory health and long-term-care insurance, and that the committee had raised model-care funds for children and adolescents with Long COVID and ME/CFS from €7 million to €15 million.

The audit committee

The Rechnungsprüfungsausschuss is a subcommittee of the Budget Committee organised like a standing committee. Where the Budget Committee appropriates funds, the subcommittee follows their execution, examines the Federation’s financial and economic management, and prepares the plenary’s discharge of the federal government from the Bemerkungen of the Bundesrechnungshof. Under Article 114 of the Basic Law, the finance minister accounts to the Bundestag and Bundesrat for revenue, expenditure, assets and debt, and the Bundesrechnungshof, whose members have judicial independence, audits regularity and economy and reports annually to both chambers and to the government. Every ordinary member of the Budget Committee is also a deputy member of the subcommittee.

An Obmann or Obfrau is a group’s principal contact in a committee. Each group names one; the Obleute shape the group’s line, settle agendas and carry the committee’s detailed work back to the group. Aumer has been the CDU/CSU Obmann of the audit subcommittee since the 21st term began on 25 March 2025.

On 4 March 2026, in the first reading of an Alternative for Germany bill to amend the Bundesrechnungshof Act (Drucksache 21/4454), he said regular work in the subcommittee showed the audit office to be professional, critical and independent, and that its submissions were a reckoning with the government “in many respects, and that is a good thing”. He called the bill thin and aimed at discrediting a forthcoming Bundestag election rather than at strengthening the office, and said the CDU/CSU wanted the office left to work as before. The bill was referred to committee.

Constituency work and regional infrastructure

Aumer represents constituency 232: the city of Regensburg and most of Landkreis Regensburg, including Regenstauf and Obertraubling. The district’s remaining municipalities are in constituency 233, Schwandorf.

Rail and transport

It covered electrification from Hof through Marktredwitz to Regensburg, on a Scandinavian–Mediterranean freight route, and a third track from Regensburg to Obertraubling, with an estimated ten-minute time saving.

Deutsche Bahn’s later description is wider. The roughly eight kilometres into Obertraubling are already electrified but only two tracks, shared by north–south trains toward Munich and east–west services toward Passau and Austria. It now plans four tracks, more noise protection, a third platform at Obertraubling, a flyover and ETCS, and says the corridor of more than 180 kilometres would save about 20 minutes between the Saale and the Danube. Those figures are the operator’s, not the 2030 plan’s.

On 21 June 2018 Deutsche Bahn set up a coordination council in Schwandorf for members of parliament, Landräte, mayors, associations and the Free State, chaired by Alfred Schmitt of DB Netz AG. Transport minister Ilse Aigner called it a further step for the main infrastructure project in the Upper Palatinate. The Bundestag disclosure lists Aumer as an unpaid member of that council at Deutsche Bahn Netz AG in Nuremberg.

In March 2023, after rail commissioner Michael Theurer said the Deutschlandtakt might slip from 2030 to 2070, Aumer wrote demanding a commitment to the four tracks and to planning and building them together, arguing that other rail improvements around Regensburg depended on the bottleneck. In November 2025 he brought Bahn planners to Obertraubling, with Landtag member Patrick Grossmann, mayor Rudolf Graß and local councillors, to discuss the station’s pedestrian underpass and cycle crossings.

On 31 March 2026 the Federal Railway Authority approved plans for Hof–Martinlamitz, about 25 kilometres and the first section Deutsche Bahn called ready to build. The company told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that, without lawsuits and if the federation paid, preparatory work could run in 2029–2030 and main construction in 2031–2033; a 2024 estimate put that section alone at €500 million to €1 billion. Tracks north of Hof have been electric since 2013; south of the city trains still change to diesel, and the paper reported critics calling the approval late. The federation finances the scheme and Deutsche Bahn plans it, while Bavaria sits on the council and municipalities deal with stations, crossings and noise.

Economy and dual local mandates

In 2025 the federation suspended sales of barracks and conversion land, including part of Regensburg’s former Pionierkaserne and the former ammunition depot at Schierling and Langquaid. The city had a binding plan from 2023 for a six-class elementary school of about 500 places, costed at €55.5 million, on part of the Pionierkaserne. Lord mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer said the halt forced replanning and put about €3 million in state aid at risk unless the school stood by 2030. Aumer had written defence minister Boris Pistorius in May 2025 asking that Bundeswehr sites in Regensburg be reactivated, and he welcomed the stop.

His Bundestag biography, based on his disclosures, lists him as a Landkreis Regensburg councillor since 2002, Christian Social Union group chair there from 2013 to 2017, and a Regenstauf market councillor from 2002 to 2014 and again from 2020, through both Bundestag terms. The district seat, the Regenstauf seat and the rail council are marked unpaid. The Members of the Bundestag Act makes the mandate the centre of an MP’s work but leaves other activity permissible, including honorary posts and political office within the cap on expense allowances. Section 5 suspends only the rights of civil servants on service pay, including full-time municipal electoral officials; the Bundestag research service states that honorary council membership is outside that rule and is common.

Party offices and internal disputes

District and regional leadership

Aumer has been chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in Landkreis Regensburg—the Kreisverband Regensburg-Land—since 2011. The date appears in the biography he supplied to the Bundestag, which parliament publishes with the note that such entries rest on members' own information. Delegates of the local branches re-elected him on 17 June 2023 in the Stadthalle in Neutraubling, with 98.3 percent of the vote, for a further two years, and on 30 May 2025 in Deuerling, with 98.7 percent. The association lists him, of Regenstauf, as Kreisvorsitzender for the board term 2025–2027.

He has sat on the executive of the CSU in the Upper Palatinate, the Bezirksvorstand Oberpfalz, since 2009. At the Bezirksverband's election of officers on 28 June 2025 he was returned as one of 23 Beisitzer and as a delegate to the CSU Parteiausschuss. The CSU in Weiden in der Oberpfalz reported that congress as a meeting in the Max-Reger-Halle there. He is also chairman of the Bundeswahlkreiskonferenz for the Regensburg Bundestag constituency, the joint body of the CSU associations of the city and the rural district.

On 15 November 2025 the Landesversammlung of the Christlich-Soziale Arbeitnehmer-Union (CSA), the CSU's employees' organization, met at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth. In the CSU's account of the assembly, Aumer was elected for the first time as one of five deputy state chairs. He stood in place of Reiner Meier, who after more than twenty years as a deputy chair did not run again; Meier was to remain active on the state board. Volker Ullrich was confirmed as state chair with 89 percent of the vote.

The 2017 dispute inside the district party

In August 2017, ahead of that year's Bundestag election, Gerhard Gröschl of Lappersdorf publicly attacked Aumer, who was already the CSU's candidate. The regional station charivari, publishing on 12 August, reported that Gröschl—then chairman of the Mittelstands-Union in the district—had the day before said that Aumer was unfit to represent the Landkreis in the Bundestag and that Aumer had personally enriched himself during his first term in Berlin. Gröschl resigned the Mittelstands-Union chair because, he said, he could not support Aumer. That first term was the mandate Aumer held from 2009 to 2013. A March 2025 profile in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung identified Gerhard Gröschl of Lappersdorf as a member of the finance board of the Landesinnungsverband des Bayerischen Elektrohandwerks, the Bavarian guild association for the electrical trade.

The district CSU rejected the accusations. Charivari reported a letter from the association to the Wochenblatt in which the party said that Gröschl's claims lacked any foundation. The published account named no sum, payment, contract or other transaction, and it did not report any examination of the claim by a court, a public prosecutor or a party tribunal. No subsequent official finding on the allegation is known.

Other activities, disclosures and personal life

Church, associations and honorary posts

The Bundestag biography, based on Aumer’s own statements, records him as Roman Catholic. On 11 April 2025 the full assembly of the Diözesankomitee der Katholiken im Bistum Regensburg for the first time elected members as individuals rather than as parish delegates. It named him, of Regenstauf and Regensburg, among the twelve: a Bundestag member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria, active in church groups, seeking closer ties between church and society. From that date the disclosure lists him as an unpaid member of the assembly.

From 4 February 2026 it also lists unpaid advisory-board seats at the Katholische Akademie für Berufe im Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen in Bayern e.V. in Regensburg and on RELIEF, a project of the Innovation Committee of the Federal Joint Committee. RELIEF, funded from October 2024 to March 2028 with about 3.4 million euros, trials coordinated care in Bavaria for specific back pain. The project page does not name its board.

The notice also marks as honorary his council seats in Landkreis Regensburg and Regenstauf, and membership of the coordination council for the Hof–Obertraubling rail upgrade at DB Netz (Deutsche Bahn Netz AG). In the volunteer fire service at Ramspau, a November 2012 press release published by Regensburg Digital said the German Fire Brigade Association had given him its bronze cross of honour and that president Hans-Peter Kröger had called him chairman of the local fire-brigade association. The brigade’s website of 4 November 2012 is signed “Peter Aumer, 1. Vorsitzender”; the present imprint names Christoph Weiß and Tobias Rautner instead. The biography otherwise says only that he volunteers in numerous local associations.

Disclosures, public questions and personal circumstances

Outside interests follow the code of conduct in the Members of the Bundestag Act, part of the Act since a 2021 reform. Members notify the President of paid work beside the mandate and of certain company, public-body and association posts. Income above 1,000 euros a month, or 3,000 euros a year, is published to the cent. Political support above 3,000 euros a year is published with its source; benefits from international contacts are not donations but are published on the same scale. Returns are due within three months. A missed notification can draw a reprimand or a published finding and a fine, so a published entry is the transparency rule, not a finding of a breach.

Every function on Aumer’s biography is marked honorary. The page shows no paid secondary occupation, income figure or shareholding. The only sum it publishes is a one-off assumption of travel costs of 8,090.00 euros in 2026 by the Taipei Representative Office in the Federal Republic of Germany (Taipeh Vertretung), under donations and other benefits for political activity. Parliamentwatch (abgeordnetenwatch.de) carries the same list.

For the current candidacy and mandate the site shows a response rate of 100 percent, 36 of 36; earlier terms are excluded, and he has not signed its voluntary transparency pledge. Questions in that count concern inheritance tax and pensions, including retirement age, long contribution records, and pension contributions by members and civil servants. Older answered threads cover climate litigation, migration, Regensburg–Marktredwitz rail electrification, cannabis law, a trade embargo on Russia, and rents.

The biography gives no marital status and names no relatives. The CSU group on the Regenstauf council lists a contact at Hirschlinger Straße 3, 93128 Regenstauf-Ramspau, and the 2012 fire-service notice called Ramspau his home village. In an alumni interview at the Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg he said that after his diploma he worked in his parents’ business. No such paid role appears on the current disclosure.