Andreas Jung

Andreas Jung (born 13 May 1973) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2005.[1]

Andreas Jung
Andreas Jung
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1975-05-13) 13 May 1975
Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Konstanz

Political career

Jung first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election.[2] From 2005 until 2013, he was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, where he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on climate protection. He also chaired the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development from 2009 until 2018.

In addition to his committee assignments, Jung has been chairing the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2019, he has been serving as co-chair of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Jung was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on energy policy, led by Peter Altmaier and Hannelore Kraft. In the negotiations to form another coalition government under Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on energy, climate protection and the environment, led by Armin Laschet, Georg Nüßlein and Barbara Hendricks.

Since 2018, Jung has been serving as deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Ralph Brinkhaus. In this capacity, he is the group's main spokesman for budgetary and financial issues.

Other activities
  • Franco-German Institute (DFI), Member of the Board[3]
  • German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board[4]
  • Bundesverband Bioenergie (BBE), Member of the Advisory Board (-2018)[5]

Political positions

In June 2017, Jung voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]

In April 2020, Jung co-signed – alongside around 50 other members of his parliamentary group – a letter to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen which called on the European Union to take in children who were living in migrant camps across Greece.[7][8]

Personal life

Jung lives on Reichenau Island.

References
  1. "Andreas Jung | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. "Andreas Jung". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  3. Board Franco-German Institute (DFI).
  4. Parliamentary Advisory Board German Industry Initiative for Energy Efficiency (DENEFF).
  5. Advisory Board Bundesverband Bioenergie (BBE).
  6. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  7. Charlotte Raskopf (April 6, 2020), 50 CDU-Abgeordnete fordern Aufnahme von Flüchtlingskindern aus griechischen Lagern Handelsblatt.
  8. Robert Roßmann (April 6, 2020), Mehr als 50 Unionsabgeordnete fordern Aufnahme von Flüchtlingskindern Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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