Fritz Rudolf Körper
Member of theBundestag
In office 1990–2013
Deputy Chairman of theSPD Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag
In office 2005–2009
Parliamentary State Secretary to theFederal Minister of the Interior
In office 1998–2005
Personal details
Born	(1954-11-14)November 14, 1954 (age 71) Rehborn,Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Alma mater	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Awards	Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit, 1. Class)

Fritz Rudolf Körper (November 14, 1954 in Rehborn) is a German politician and member of theSocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was a member of the GermanBundestag from 1990 to 2013, parliamentary state secretary to theFederal Minister of the Interior from 1998 to 2005 and Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group from 2005 to 2009.

After graduating from high school in 1974, Körper studiedProtestant theology at theJohannes Gutenberg University inMainz, which he completed in 1982 with the theological examination at theEvangelical Church of the Palatinate.

Fritz Rudolf Körper has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1973. From 1990 to 2010, he was chairman of theBad Kreuznach SPD district association, and from 1990 to 2013 he was deputy chairman of the Rhineland SPD regional association.

He was an elected member of the Bundestag from 1990 and remained in office until 2013. Here, he held the position of domestic policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2005, Körper was parliamentary state secretary to the Federal Minister of the InteriorOtto Schily.

From November 28, 2005, to October 2009, Körper was deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group for domestic policy, law, sports, culture and media, and rules of procedure. From the beginning of the 17th parliamentary term (2009-2013), he was a member of the Defense Committee.^[1] He also served eight years on theParliamentary Oversight Panel, which monitors the work of theFederal Intelligence Service (BND), theFederal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), and theMilitary Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD).^[2]

Körper had entered the Bundestag in the2005 and2009 federal elections via the state list ofRhineland-Palatinate and before that always as a directly elected member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Kreuznach. In the2013 Bundestag election, he ran again for the constituency as well as in 12th place on the state list, but was unable to win a Bundestag mandate again.^[3][4]

Since January 1, 2014, he has led and managed an international firm based inBerlin,Brussels and Mainz, which, among other things, represents the political interests of companies and advises and supports its clients in business development.^[5][6]

• 2006: Badge of Honor of the GermanFederal Agency for Technical Relief in Gold
• 2009:Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of Merit 1. Class^[7]
• 2014: GermanFire Brigade Cross of Honor in Silver of the DFV

• 1954 births
• Living people
• Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Members of the Bundestag 1990–1994
• Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998
• Members of the Bundestag 1998–2002
• Members of the Bundestag 2002–2005
• Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009
• Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
• Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni
• Members of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate
• Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

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