Heribert Hirte

Heribert Hirte
Hirte in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
In office 2013–2021
Personal details
Born	(1958-03-31) 31 March 1958 (age 65) Köln, West Germany
Political party	CDU
Alma mater	University of Cologne

Heribert Hirte (born 31 March 1958) is a German legal scholar and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2013 until 2021. ^[1]

Political career

Born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hirte became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Cologne II district. ^[2] He was 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 was part of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Belgian Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2019 until 2021, he was a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.

Ahead of the 2021 elections, Hirte failed to win his party's support for another candidacy in the Cologne II district; he was succeeded by Sandra von Möller as the CDU candidate for the upcoming election. ^[6]

Other activities

Corporate boards

• Stadtwerke Köln, Member of the supervisory board (2018-2020) ^[7]

Non-profit organizations

• Transparency Germany, Member of the Board (since 2022) ^{[8] [9]}
• Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Member of the Board of Trustees
• European Law Faculties Association (ELFA), Member of the Board (2005-2009)

Political positions

In June 2017, Hirte voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage. ^[10]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats' leadership election, Hirte publicly endorsed in 2020 Armin Laschet to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair. ^[11]

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. ^[12]

References

1. "Heribert Hirte | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
2. "Prof. Dr. Heribert Hirte". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
3. Guy Chazan (13 November 2019), Leading AfD lawmaker ousted as committee chair  Financial Times .
4. "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
5. "German Bundestag - Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
6. Andreas Damm (8 May 2021), CDU wählt Kandidaten: Schlappe für Kölner Bundespolitiker Heribert Hirte Kölner Stadtanzeiger .
7. Tim Attenberger (7 June 2018), Kölner Stadtwerke: Oberbürgermeisterin Reker soll Aufsichtsrat leiten Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .
8. Board Transparency Germany.
9. Transparency Deutschland hat einen neuen Vorstand gewählt – Alexandra Herzog ist neue Vorsitzende Transparency Germany, press release of 18 September 2022.
10. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt , 30 June 2017.
11. AKK-Rückzug: Diese Nachfolger wünschen sich Christdemokraten aus Köln und der Region Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , 10 February 2020.
12. Offener Brief an Seehofer: Röttgen fordert Aufnahme von 5000 Migranten aus Moria Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 10 September 2020.

External links

• Official website (in German)
• Bundestag biography (in English)