Michael Brand (politician)

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Michael Brand
MdB
Member of the Bundestag
for Fulda
Assumed office
18 October 2005
Preceded byMartin Hohmann
Personal details
Born (1973-11-19) 19 November 1973 (age 50)
Fulda, Hesse, West Germany
Political party German:
CDU
 EU:
European People's Party
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Bonn

Michael Brand (born 19 November 1973) is a German politician of the

Christian Democratic Union
(CDU).

Political career

He is a former election observer at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Brand has been a directly elected member of the Bundestag since 2005, representing Fulda.

Between 2005 and 2013, Brand was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, where he served as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's rapporteur on recycling and waste regulations. From 2009 until 2017, he also served on the Defence Committee and on the Sub-Committee for Civilian Crisis Prevention.

Since the

Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
).

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Brand was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel.

Since 2020, Brand has been serving as co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).[1] In 2023, he co-founded the Cross-Party Parliamentary Group on the Situation of the Uyghurs.

Other activities

Government agencies

Non-profit organizations

  • Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Member of the Committee on Social Responsibility (since 2015)[2]

Political positions

Brand in 2019

In April 2015, Brand vigorously criticized German

Holocaust a genocide must not be by-passed or withheld due to cowardice."[3]

In 2015, a majority of the Bundestag voted in favor of banning assisted suicides performed by associations, on the basis of a proposal put forward by Brand and fellow parliamentarian Kerstin Griese of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The proposed bill submitted by Brand and Griese had called for "striking a balance" between punishing those who provide suicide assistance and complete deregulation of the process. The parliamentarians voted in favor of one of the proposals irrespective of their parties' policy on the matter.[4] In 2020, the ban was overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court.

In June 2017, Brand voted against Germany's introduction of

same-sex marriage.[5]

In September 2020, Brand was one of 15 members of his parliamentary group who joined

Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.[6]

References

  1. ^ Co-Chairs Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
  2. Evangelical Church in Germany
    (EKD).
  3. ^ Hans von der Burchard (27 April 2015), Steinmeier under fire on Armenia Politico Europe.
  4. ^ Bundestag votes against 'commercial' assisted suicides Deutsche Welle, 6 November 2015.
  5. ^ Entscheidung im Bundestag: So stimmten Hessens Abgeordnete bei der Ehe für alle Hessenschau, 30 June 2017.
  6. ^ Offener Brief an Seehofer: Röttgen fordert Aufnahme von 5000 Migranten aus Moria Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 September 2020.

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