Ansgar Heveling

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Ansgar Heveling
Ansgar Heveling 2012.jpg
Ansgar Heveling in 2012
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1972-07-03) 3 July 1972 (age 49)
Rheydt, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Children1
Alma mater
  • University of Bonn
  • German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer

Ansgar 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]

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.

Since 2018, Heveling has been part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[5]

Other activities[]

  • Deutsche Welle, Alternate Member of the Supervisory Board
  • German Historical Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Haus der Geschichte, Member of the Board of Trustees

Political positions[]

In June 2017, Heveling voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ansgar Heveling | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. ^ "Ansgar Heveling". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. ^ Ulrike Thiele (January 31, 2012), Ansgar Heveling: Ein CDU-Politiker zieht in den Netzkrieg Der Tagesspiegel.
  5. ^ Robert Roßmann (January 20, 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  6. ^ Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.

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