Jan-Marco Luczak | |
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| Member of theBundestag forBerlin | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Constituency | CDU State-wide list |
| In office 24 September 2017 – 26 September 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Mechthild Rawert |
| Succeeded by | Kevin Kühnert |
| Constituency | Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1975-10-02)2 October 1975 (age 50) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
| Alma mater | LMU Munich,FU Berlin |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Website | luczak-berlin |
Jan-Marco Luczak (born 2 October 1975) is a German lawyer and a politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since 2009, representing theBerlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg constituency until 2021, and as a party list member since.
Luczak was born inWest Berlin on 2 October 1975. He attended the secondary school Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium inTempelhof and passed hisAbitur in 1995, after which he served the general conscription in theBundeswehr.
Moreover, Luczak began to study law at theFree University of Berlin. After his firstStaatsexamen, Luczak worked for an international law firm.[which?] On a scholarship program of theKonrad Adenauer Foundation, he received the doctoral degree,Doctor of Laws, atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich. His dissertation ("Die Europäische Wirtschaftsverfassung als Legitimationselement europäischer Integration"; translated:The European economic constitution as the legitimated element of European Integration) was supervised byRupert Scholz, a former German Minister of Defence. He passed the second Staatsexamen in 2008.
Since 2008, Luczak has been working as a lawyer for law firmHengeler Mueller in Berlin.[1]
Since 1998, Luczak has been a member of theChristian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He held several different offices, including treasurer and regional chairman of the youth organization "Young Union" of the Christian Democrats. Furthermore, Luczak has been elected for chairman of the local CDU inBerlin-Lichtenrade in 2006. He has been the deputy chairman of the regional CDU in district Tempelhof-Schöneberg since 2007.
In the2009 federal elections, Luczak ran for the direct Membership of Parliament (MP) in his electoral district Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin. He won his electoral district with 32.4% (54,925 votes) of direct votes after 15 years for the CDU.[2] In the elections of 2013 he defended his mandate with 35% (60,926 votes).[3]
In parliament, Luczak served as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (2013–2021),[4] the Sub-Committee on European Law (2013–2017) and as an alternate member of the Committee on Internal Affairs (2013–2021), where the majority of his work focused on legal affairs and economic policy. From 2014 until 2017, he was the deputy chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs. He also served on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany. Since the2021 elections, he has been serving on the Committee on Building, Housing, Urban Development and Local Government. He is also his parliamentary group's spokesperson on building, housing, urban development and local government.
Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Luczak led the group of CDU parliamentarians from Berlin from 2018 until 2021.[5]
In addition to his committee assignments, Luczak is a member of the German Parliamentary Society. He was also a member of the German-French, the German-Polish and the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Groups before becoming deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Andes States (Bolivia,Ecuador,Colombia,Peru,Venezuela) in 2018. Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, he has been leading the group of CDU parliamentarians from Berlin since 2018.[6]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Luczak was part of the working group on urban development, led byBernd Althusmann,Kurt Gribl andNatascha Kohnen.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government between the CDU and theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) under the leadership ofKai Wegner following Berlin’s2023 state elections, Luczak was part of his party’s delegation to the working group on internal and legal affairs.[7]
