Eckhardt Rehberg

Eckhardt Rehberg (born 3 April 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2005.

Eckhardt Rehberg
Eckhardt Rehberg in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1954-04-03) 3 April 1954
Ribnitz-Damgarten, East Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU

Political career

From 1990 until 2005, Rehberg served as a member of the State Parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. From 2001 until 2005, he was the chairman of the CDU in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Rehberg became a member of the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election.[1] From 2005 until 2009, he served on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Budget Committee.[2] In 2015 he also became his parliamentary group's spokesperson on the national budget. He is also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD. In addition to his committee assignments, he serves on the Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.

In the negotiations to form Merkel’s fourth coalition government following the 2017 federal elections, Rehberg was part of the working group on financial policies and taxes, led by Peter Altmaier, Andreas Scheuer and Olaf Scholz.

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Corporate boards
  • Deutsche Bahn, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2018)[3]
  • KfW, ex-officio Member of the Board of Supervisory Directors (2014-2019)[4]
  • Nordex, Member of the Political Advisory Board (2009-2013)
  • Volkswerft, Member of the Supervisory Board (2005-2013)
  • Ostseestadion, Member of the Advisory Board (2005-2009)

Non-profit organizations
  • F.C. Hansa Rostock, Member

Political positions

Human rights

In June 2017, Rehberg voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[5]

Economic policy

Rehberg has been a supporter of the debt brake in the budget of Germany since its introduction in 2009. Amid the economic downturn due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, he demanded that “suspending the debt brake must not become a habit. We have to get back to the regular debt limit as quickly as possible.”[6]

In 2018, Rehberg rejected plans presented by Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz for a European unemployment stabilization fund designed to arm the eurozone against crises.[7] He later criticized the European Commission’s 2019 plans for loosening the EU’s budget rules in a bid to free up spending for a European Green Deal, arguing that the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) already provided enough flexibility to permit public investments.[8]

References
  1. "Eckhardt Rehberg". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  2. "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
  3. Daniel Delhaes and Dieter Fockenbrock (May 31, 2018), Stühlerücken im Bahn-Aufsichtsrat: Christian Schmidt und Eckhardt Rehberg werden neue Bahn-Aufseher Handelsblatt.
  4. 2018 Annual Report: Report of the Board of Supervisory Directors KfW.
  5. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  6. Michael Nienaber (August 20, 2020), Merkel's conservatives clash with Scholz over debt brake Reuters.
  7. Guy Chazan and Mehreen Khan (October 17, 2018), German finance minister advocates unemployment fund for eurozone Financial Times.
  8. Sam Fleming and Guy Chazan (December 11, 2019), German politicians warn EU on looser budget rules for green drive Financial Times.
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