Fritz Felgentreu

Fritz Felgentreu (born 1 September 1969 in Kiel) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2013.[1]

Fritz Felgentreu
Fritz Felgentreu in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Preceded byStefanie Vogelsang
Personal details
Born (1968-09-01) 1 September 1968
Kiel, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Alma materFree University of Berlin
OccupationTeacher

Education and early career

Born in Kiel, Felgentreu graduated from high school in Büsum in 1987 and then served in the German Armed Forces for two years.

Felgentreu has been living in Berlin since 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he studied classical philology, Slavic studies and psychology at the Free University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1998 under Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers. From 1998 to 2008 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Classical Philology at the Free University of Berlin. He also taught at Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster from 2010 until 2013.

Political career

Felgentreu first became member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[2] In parliament, he has since been a member of the Defense Committee.[3] From 2014 until 2017, he also served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, where his was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on alimony.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Felgentreu was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel. From 2018 until 2020, he served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on defense policy;[4][5] he resigned after his parliamentary group, contrary to his own recommendation, voted against the government's plans to procure armed combat drones for military use.[6][7]

In June 2020, Felgentreu announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[8]

Other activities

References
  1. "Fritz Felgentreu | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  2. "Dr. Fritz Felgentreu, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  3. "German Bundestag - Defence". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  4. Fritz Felgentreu SPD Parliamentary Group
  5. Guy Chazan (July 13, 2018), Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s unflappable defence minister Financial Times.
  6. Hans Monath (December 15, 2020), Streit um Bundeswehr-Ausrüstung: SPD will nun doch keine bewaffneten Drohnen Der Tagesspiegel.
  7. Laurenz Gehrke (December 18, 2020), German SPD under attack after shooting down armed drones Politico Europe.
  8. Georg Ismar and Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach (June 11, 2020), SPD-Fraktion verliert Verteidigungsfachmann: Fritz Felgentreu kündigt seinen Abschied an Der Tagesspiegel.
  9. Advisory Board, Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS).
  10. Fritz Felgentreu SPD Parliamentary Group
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