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) |
| 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). He ran for the Bundestag federal electionsin 2009,2013,2017,2021 and2025 and was elected every time in his constituency (de) nearNeuss (North Rhine-Westphalia).He has been serving as a member of theBundestag since 27 October 2009.[1]
From 2005 until 2009, Heveling served as deputy chief of staff to North Rhine-Westphalia's State Minister of FinanceHelmut Linssen (CDU) in the government of Minister-PresidentJürgen Rüttgers (CDU,Kabinett 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]
Heveling was Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee of the 18th German Bundestag (2015-2017).[7] He served as representative of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Culture Committee. In addition, he was part of the Enquete Commission on the Internet and Digital Society and was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag. In 2018, Heveling became legal advisor to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
In the 20th German Bundestag, Heveling was a full member of the Election Committee, the Election Review Committee, the Legal Affairs Committee and the Committee for Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure. He also was a deputy member of the Committee for Culture and Media.
Heveling is a member of the non-partisanEuropa-Union Deutschland, which advocates for a federal Europe and the European unification process.[8]
Heveling was one of 226 Members of the Bundestag who voted in June 2017 against the introduction ofsame-sex marriage in Germany.[9][10]
