Heribert Hirte

Heribert Hirte (born 31 March 1958) is a German legal scholar and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013.[1]

Heribert Hirte
Heribert Hirte in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1958-03-31) 31 March 1958
Köln, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Cologne

Political career

Born in Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hirte became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Committee on European Affairs. In 2019, he took over as chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection after his predecessor Stephan Brandner was voted out of office by all the other members of the committee.[3] He has also been chairing the Subcommittee on European Law since 2018.[4][5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Hirte is part of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Belgian Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2019, he has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Hirte voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.[7]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election, Hirte publicly endorsed in 2020 Armin Laschet to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.[8]

In September 2020, Hirte was one of 15 members of her parliamentary group who joined Norbert Röttgen in writing an open letter to Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer which called on Germany and other EU counties to take in 5000 immigrants who were left without shelter after fires gutted the overcrowded Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.[9]

References
  1. "Heribert Hirte | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. "Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  3. Guy Chazan (November 13, 2019), Leading AfD lawmaker ousted as committee chair Financial Times.
  4. "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  5. "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  6. Tim Attenberger (June 7, 2018), Kölner Stadtwerke: Oberbürgermeisterin Reker soll Aufsichtsrat leiten Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
  7. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  8. AKK-Rückzug: Diese Nachfolger wünschen sich Christdemokraten aus Köln und der Region Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 10, 2020.
  9. Offener Brief an Seehofer: Röttgen fordert Aufnahme von 5000 Migranten aus Moria Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 10, 2020.


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