Burkhard Lischka | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2019 | |
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| Born | (1965-02-01)1 February 1965 (age 60) |
| Political party |  German:Social Democratic Party  EU:Party of European Socialists |
Burkhard Lischka (born 1 February 1965) is a German lawyer and politician of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as a member of theBundestag from 2009 until 2019.
Lischka served as Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice in the State ofSaxony-Anhalt from 2006 to 2009.[1]
Lischka was a member of the GermanBundestag from the2009 elections. In parliament, he served as a member of the Committee on Home Affairs and of theGerman Parliamentary Committee investigating the NSA spying scandal.[1] He was also a member of theParliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence servicesBND,BfV andMAD. From 2014 until 2019, he was a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely theFederal Court of Justice (BGH), theFederal Administrative Court (BVerwG), theFederal Fiscal Court (BFH), theFederal Labour Court (BAG), and theFederal Social Court (BSG).
From 2011 until 2019, Lischka was part of his parliamentary group's leadership under successive chairsFrank-Walter Steinmeier (2009-2013),Thomas Oppermann (2013-2017) andAndrea Nahles (2017-2019). Within the parliamentary group, he was a member of the working groups on municipal policy (2009-2013), relations withAfghanistan andPakistan (2009-2013), legal affairs (2009-2014) and internal affairs (since 2014). He also belonged to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[2]
In addition to his committee assignments, Lischka served as deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East between 2009 and 2013, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations withBahrain,Irak,Yemen,Jordan,Qatar,Kuwait,Lebanon,Oman,Saudi Arabia,Syria,United Arab Emirates, and thePalestinian territories.
In the negotiations to form afourthcoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Lischka was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byThomas de Maizière,Stephan Mayer andHeiko Maas.
In early 2019, Lischka announced that he would resign from active politics by mid-2019 and instead return to his law practice.[3]
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