Ansgar Heveling | |
|---|---|
 Heveling in 2012 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (1972-07-03)3 July 1972 (age 53) |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | |
Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (born 3 July 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.[1]
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-PresidentJürgen Rüttgers.
Heveling first became a member of the Bundestag in the2009 German federal election, representingKrefeld.[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 theFederal 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'srapporteur oncopyright andcriminal law.[4]
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and the SPD following the2013 federal elections, Heveling was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led byMichael Kretschmer andKlaus Wowereit.
From 2018, Heveling was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’selectoral system, chaired byWolfgang 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 byJohannes Fechner andNina Warken.[6]
In June 2017, Heveling voted against Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[8]
