Anton Hofreiter | |
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 Hofreiter in 2024 | |
| Chair of theCommittee on European Affairs | |
| Assumed office 15 December 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Gunther Krichbaum |
| Leader of theAlliance 90/The Greens in theBundestag | |
| In office 8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021 Serving with Katrin Göring-Eckardt | |
| Preceded by | Jürgen Trittin |
| Succeeded by | Katharina Dröge |
| Chair of theTransport, Construction and Urban Development Committee | |
| In office 8 June 2011 – 8 October 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Winfried Hermann |
| Succeeded by | Martin Burkert |
| Member of theBundestag forBavaria | |
| Assumed office 18 September 2005 | |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anton Gerhard Hofreiter (1970-02-02)2 February 1970 (age 55) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Profession | Politician, biologist |
| Website | toni-hofreiter |
Anton Gerhard "Toni"Hofreiter[1] (born 2 February 1970) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of theBundestag since the2005 elections.
As a member ofAlliance 90/The Greens, Hofreiter has been a member of theBundestag since the2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he served as member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development; he served as chairman of the committee from 2011 until 2013. He was also member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Hofreiter served as co-chair of theGreen Party's parliamentary group, together withKatrin Göring-Eckardt from October 2013 to December 2021.[2] In 2013, he was elected unopposed as the sole candidate of the group's left faction.[3] In September 2019, both Hofreiter and Göring-Eckardt were unsuccessfully challenged byCem Özdemir andKirsten Kappert-Gonther.[4]
In 2011, Hofreiter joinedGerhard Schick,Hans-Christian Ströbele andWinfried Hermann in their successful 2011constitutional complaint against the refusal ofChancellorAngela Merkel's government to provide information on theDeutsche Bahn and financial market supervision. In its judgment pronounced in 2017, theFederal Constitutional Court held that the government had indeed failed to fulfil its duty to give answers in response to parliamentary queries and to sufficiently substantiate the reasons.[5]
Since the2021 elections, Hofreiter has been serving as chairman of the Committee on European Affairs.[6] In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[7]
Following 2012 reports bySpiegel Online according to which a luxuryBoeing 767 belonging toBelarusian PresidentAlexander Lukashenko was refitted byLufthansa Technik in Hamburg with expensive accoutrement to further accommodate Lukashenko's expensive tastes, Hofreiter criticized the company for cooperating with a "dictator who gives orders for the death penalty and violently destroys the opposition".[8]
In January 2015, Hofreiter criticized a decision by police in the eastern city of Dresden to ban an anti-Islam march after death threats toward an organizer, slamming the move as a worrying restriction on freedom of speech.[9] In theEuropean migration crisis, Hofreiter is an outspoken proponent of a liberal migration policy.[10]
In a 2014 debate on a reform of the voting rules in theGoverning Council of the European Central Bank, Hofreiter strongly criticized calls for a power of veto, saying to theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Bundesbank chiefJens Weidmann is not Germany'svicegerent in the ECB Council".[11]
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