Michael Grosse-Brömer | |
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| Chief Whip of theCDU/CSU Group in theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 22 May 2012 | |
| Leader | Volker Kauder Ralph Brinkhaus |
| Preceded by | Peter Altmaier |
| Member of theBundestag forHarburg (Lower Saxony; 2002–2009) | |
| Assumed office 17 October 2002 | |
| Preceded by | Monika Griefahn |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Michael Grosse-Brömer (1960-10-12)12 October 1960 (age 65) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Occupation | Politician |
Michael Grosse-Brömer (born 12 October 1960) is a German lawyer andpolitician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been selfserving as a member of theBundestag since 2002.
Grosse-Brömer is alawyer andcivil law notary, specializing in building and architects law.[1]
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Grosse-Brömer joined the CDU in 1982.[citation needed]
Grosse-Brömer was first elected to the Bundestag in the2002 elections. He first served as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and as chairman of its Sub-Committee on European Law. Between 2003 and 2004, he was one of 32 members of theCommission on the modernization of the federal state, which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany. Within theCDU/CSU parliamentary group, Grosse-Brömer joined the leadership committee in 2006.[citation needed]
Following the2009 federal elections, Grosse-Brömer assumed leadership of the Christian Democrats fromLower Saxony. In 2010 he became justicar of the parliamentary group of the CDU; before then he had served as the groups' spokesperson on legal affairs. In 2012 he succeededPeter Altmaier asFirst Secretary of the parliamentary group, in this position assisting the parliamentary group's chairmanVolker Kauder. In addition, he is a member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group.[citation needed]
From 2009, Grosse-Brömer was also a member of the parliament'sCouncil of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. Since 2014, he has been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany.[2] He is also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the other 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).[citation needed]
Following the2013 federal elections, Grosse-Brömer was part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement. In the negotiations to form acoalition government with theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), theFree Democratic Party (FDP) and theGreen Party following the2017 national elections, he was part of the 19-member delegation of the CDU.[citation needed]
Following his party's defeat in the2021 elections, Grosse-Brömer announced his candidacy asVice President of the Bundestag; however, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group eventually nominatedYvonne Magwas for the position.[3][4] Since then, he has been serving as chair of the Committee on Economic Affairs.[5]
In April 2024, Grosse-Brömer announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[6]
Following a 2013 decision by theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany, which ruled that gays and lesbians should be allowed to adopt children already adopted by their partners, Grosse-Brömer told German dailySüddeutsche Zeitung that as a result of the "clear tendency in the decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court, we should move as quickly as possible to implement the necessary constitutional right of equality."[7] Grosse-Brömer later devised a compromise on legally binding rules to ensure more women sit on corporate boards after some of his parliamentary group's lawmakers, led by Labor MinisterUrsula von der Leyen, threatened to vote for the opposition-sponsored proposal to reserve as many as 40 percent of board seats for women. Under the agreement, at least 30 percent of the supervisory board of publicly traded companies must be reserved for women from 2020.[8]
In a 2013 German debate about moving towards tighter regulation ofexecutive pay, Grosse-Brömer expressed his hope that transparency and shareholder scrutiny would be enough to put a stop to pay excesses and rejected a legal cap on payouts.[9] Speaking on plans to create aTransatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in 2014, he told theFinancial Times that "[t]he biggest advantage is that when the EU and the US make this deal, it will include standards which can be applied worldwide."[10]
In the debate oninternational sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, Grosse-Brömer supported tighter measures, saying said it was "right" to push for more sanctions on Russia and that "sanctions that have been held out must also be implemented."[11] OnUkraine's presidentPetro Poroshenko's 2014 plan to hold a referendum on his country joiningNATO, Grosse-Brömer swiftly commented: "NATO membership for Ukraine isn't on the agenda at this point."[12]
Grosse-Brömer sits on the advisory board of Wuppertal-based insurer Barmenia Versicherungen.[13]
