Hartmut Koschyk | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the German Bundestag | |
| In office 1990–2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1959-04-16)April 16, 1959 (age 66) |
| Political party | CSU |
Hartmut Koschyk (born April 16, 1959,Forchheim, Germany) is aGerman politician (CSU) and former member of the Bundestag. From 2009 to 2013, he wasParliamentary State Secretary to theFederal Minister of Finance. Prior to that, he was parliamentary director of the CSU state group in the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2009. From 2014 to 2017, Koschyk was the Federal Government Commissioner for Aussiedler Issues and National Minorities.[1]
Koschyk's parents came fromUpper Silesia. He attended the humanistic branch of the Herder-Gymnasium Forchheim. After graduating from high school in 1978, he joined theGerman Armed Forces as an officer candidate, leaving in 1983. He is alieutenant colonel in thereserve (Army).
In 1978, Koschyk joined the CSU and theYoung Union. From 1983 to 1987, he was a research assistant to CDU member of parliament Helmut Sauer (Salzgitter) in theGerman Bundestag in Bonn. In addition, he studied history and political science at theUniversity of Bonn.
Due to his honorary commitment in the youth association of the expellees, among other things as Federal Chairman of theSilesian Youth, he was appointed Secretary General of the Federation of Expellees in 1987 at the age of only 28. He held this office until 1991.
Hartmut Koschyk has been married since 1986; the couple has three children. From 1995 to 2006, the family lived inBindlach in the district ofBayreuth. In the meantime, the family lives inGoldkronach Castle, which was restored by them, among other things, with monument protection funds amounting to 1.4 million euros.[2]
Hartmut Koschyk was elected to the Bundestag in the1990 Bundestag election via the Bavarian state list. In subsequent Bundestag elections, he was always elected directly as a member of parliament for theBayreuth constituency.
Koschyk was amember of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2017. From 1990 to 2002, he was chairman of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Refugees and from 2002 to 2005 of the Working Group on the Interior of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag. On October 17, 1991, Koschyk voted in the Bundestag against the recognition of theOder-Neisse line as the final border between the Federal Republic of Germany and theRepublic of Poland.[3]
On April 26, 2002, a polemical statement written byErwin Marschewski, Hartmut Koschyk andNorbert Geis on the amendment of the planned newweapons law by the then coalition of theSPD and the Greens was published on the CDU's homepage. Due to the Erfurt rampage on the same day, this press release was later withdrawn from the CDU parliamentary group's website. The press spokeswoman Ilse Falk stated that the polemics of the party debate on this topic were now forbidden.[4][5][6]
On November 28, 2005, Koschyk was elected Parliamentary Secretary of the CSU state group in the German Bundestag and at the same time Deputy to the First Parliamentary Secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
Most recently, he served in the Bundestag as Chairman of the German-Korean Parliamentary Group.[7] He had already chaired the group from 1998 to 2009. He did not run again in the2017 Bundestag election.
Koschyk joined the CSU in 1978. He became deputy district chairman of the CSU of Upper Franconia in 1997 and district chairman of the CSU in the Bayreuth district in 1999. From 1999 to 2018, he was chairman of the federal constituency conference in the Bayreuth-Forchheim federal constituency.[8] As parliamentary director of the CSU state group in the Bundestag, Koschyk was co-opted into the CSU state executive committee. In addition, he is a member of the CSU party presidium, chairman of the motion committee of the CSU party congresses and the CSU party committees.
Koschyk has been a member of the Bayreuth district council since 2002.
