Ansgar Heveling

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Ansgar Heveling
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Ansgar Heveling in 2012
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born
Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling

(1972-07-03) 3 July 1972 (age 52)
Rheydt, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party CDU
Children1
Alma mater

Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (born 3 July 1972) 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 North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009. [1]

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Early career

From 2005 until 2009, Heveling served as deputy chief of staff to North Rhine-Westphalia's State Minister of Finance Helmut Linssen in the government of Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers.

Political career

Heveling first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing Krefeld. [2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection; [3] the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure; and the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2009 until 2013, he was also a member of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. He serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on copyright and criminal law. [4]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Heveling was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit.

From 2018, Heveling was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble. [5] Since 2022, he has been a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired by Johannes Fechner and Nina Warken. [6]

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Heveling voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Ansgar Heveling | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Ansgar Heveling". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag – Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Thiele (31 January 2012), Ansgar Heveling: Ein CDU-Politiker zieht in den Netzkrieg Der Tagesspiegel .
  5. ↑ Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  6. ↑ Fechner und Warken leiten Kommission zur Reform des Wahlrechts Bundestag, press release of 7 April 2022.
  7. ↑ 2019–2020 Annual Report German Historical Museum (DHM).
  8. ↑ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt , 30 June 2017.
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