Johannes Fechner | |
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 Fechner in 2019 | |
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| Assumed office 2013 | |
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| Born | (1972-11-25)25 November 1972 (age 52) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
Johannes Fechner (born 25 November 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofBaden-Württemberg since 2013.[1]
Fechner became a member of the Bundestag in the2013 German federal election.[2] He has since been a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. From 2014 to 2021, he served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on legal affairs.
Fechner has also served on its Subcommittee on European Affairs (2014-2017), the Committee for the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure (2014-2017) and the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home (since 2018).[3] In 2018, he joined 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). He has also been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany.
In the negotiations to form afourthcoalition government under the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkel following the2017 federal elections, Fechner was part of the working group on internal and legal affairs, led byThomas de Maizière,Stephan Mayer andHeiko Maas.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of the SPD, theGreen Party and theFree Democrats (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Fechner was part of his party's delegation in the working group onhomeland security, civil rights and consumer protection, co-chaired byChristine Lambrecht,Konstantin von Notz andWolfgang Kubicki.[4]
Since the 2021 elections, Fechner has been serving as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for the scrutiny of elections, immunity and the rules of procedure.[5] From 2022 to 2023, he co-chaired – alongsideNina Warken – the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work.[6]
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