Ansgar Heveling

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Ansgar Heveling (2012)

Ansgar Heveling (born July 3, 1972 in Rheydt ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and lawyer from Korschenbroich , North Rhine-Westphalia . Heveling has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2009 and was chairman of the CDU city council group in Korschenbroich from 2002 to 2009.

Professional career

Heveling attended a Catholic primary school in Korschenbroich and graduated from the Stiftisches Humanistische Gymnasium Mönchengladbach in 1992 . During his military service in Braunschweig , he received the Bundeswehr Medal of Honor . From 1993 to 1997 he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Bonn and graduated with the first state examination. From 1991 to 2001 he did the legal clerkship at the Episcopal Vicariate General in Aachen (secular law department) and completed an administrative science course at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, law and administrative sciences . He finished this training with the second state examination.

From 2001 to 2002 he worked as a lawyer in a law firm in Korschenbroich.

Political career

Heveling in the Bundestag, 2019

In 1989 Heveling joined the Schüler Union and the Junge Union in Mönchengladbach . Until 1992 he was u. a. State manager of the North Rhine-Westphalia student union . From 1992 to 1995 he was chairman of the Junge Union Korschenbroich. Between 1997 and 2000 he was district chairman of the Junge Union Neuss and between 1996 and 1998 he was deputy chairman of the district association Niederrhein.

Heveling joined the CDU in 1991 . Since 1992 he has been a member of the Korschenbroich city association and the CDU local association committee Korschenbroich and Pesch , and in 2000 he became chairman of the city association. He has been a member of the Neuss district executive since 1997 and deputy district chairman from 2011 to 2017. From 2006 to 2011 Heveling was treasurer of the CDU in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss. Between 1999 and 2009 he was a member of the Korschenbroich City Council , and from 2002 to 2009 as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

Between 2003 and 2005 he was a transport policy advisor for the CDU parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 2005 to 2009 he was a consultant and deputy head in the office of the North Rhine-Westphalian Finance Minister Helmut Linssen .

In the 2009 Bundestag election he ran in the constituency of Krefeld I - Neuss II and won the direct mandate with 42.3% of the first votes. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since October 2009 . In 2013 he was re-elected as a direct candidate in the Bundestag with 49.1% and in 2017 with 42.4%.

Positions

At the end of January 2012, Heveling was one of the co-signatories of a letter of support for the failed US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). His group colleague Michael Kretschmer then certified Heveling as having a “lack of specialist knowledge” in the field of network policy.

On January 30, 2012, Heveling drew a guest commentary in the Handelsblatt with the title Citizens, defend your values ​​online too! according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung "a gloomy picture of a 'final battle' between Internet users and non-users", in which he u. a. the theses of American computer scientist Jaron Lanier quoted, that Web 2.0 creates a kind of "digital Maoism". The essay was sharply criticized by numerous media and politicians - including from their own parliamentary group; the deputy CSU general secretary Dorothee Bär recommended Heveling to think about "whether he has chosen the right profession as a politician." In addition, his website was attacked and was temporarily unavailable. Shortly afterwards, a blogger pointed out that pictures from Wikimedia Commons were used in Heveling's newsletter , without correctly naming the photographer and license.

On January 31, 2012, he commented on the reactions to his guest comment as follows: “The manner of the reactions also showed me that my basic theses were correct. Actually, what is happening now is exactly what I pointed out. ”Heveling expressed the expectation“ that there will soon be a generation that deals with the Internet in a completely different way. Bloggers are then no longer relevant. "

Memberships

Heveling has been chairman of the Interior Committee of the 18th German Bundestag since 2015 . He was also the chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the culture committee. He was also part of the Internet and Digital Society Enquete Commission and was a member of the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag. Heveling has been legal counsel in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group since 2018 .

In the 19th German Bundestag is Heveling full member of the Election Committee , the Elections Committee and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection . He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Home Affairs , the Committee on Culture and Media , and the Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure .

Heveling is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

Private

Heveling lives in Korschenbroich and has been married since 2002. He has a son. Heveling is a Roman Catholic denomination.

Web links

Commons : Ansgar Heveling  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lienenkämper leads district CDU, ngz-online.de, November 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Take a deep breath at Heveling , on rp-online.de
  3. ↑ Heveling convinces with 49.09 percent , on rp-online.de
  4. ↑ election result Krefeld I - Neuss II: The result in the constituency 110 - Federal Elections 2017. In: welt.de . September 24, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ CDU disputes over controversial US Internet law SOPA. Die Welt , January 26, 2012, accessed October 19, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Internet law Sopa: Union politicians whistle back copyright hardliners. Der Spiegel , January 26, 2012, accessed January 30, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Ansgar Heveling: Citizens, defend your values ​​online too! , Handelsblatt, January 30, 2012, p. 9 (published on Handelsblatt.com as Netzgemeinde, you will lose the fight! (Accessed on January 30, 2012)).
  8. ↑ Lilith Volkert / Michael König: CDU delegate declares war on “Netzgemeinde” , Süddeutsche.de, January 30, 2012 (accessed January 30, 2012).
  9. ↑ See Harry Nutt: Everyone is picking on Ansgar Heveling , FR-Online.de, February 3, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
  10. ↑ See Thorsten Denkler / Oliver Das Gupta: Ansgar Heveling's attack on the Internet - “Völlig wahnsinnige war rhetoric” , Sueddeutsche.de, February 3, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
  11. ^ Gregor Mayntz: CSU calls Heveling “post-puberty” , RP Online, February 2, 2012 (accessed on February 8, 2012).
  12. ↑ Christian Stöcker: CDU backbenchers trollt die Netzgemeinde , Spiegel Online, January 30, 2012 (accessed on January 30, 2012).
  13. ↑ Alvar Freude: Copyright Trolls as Copyright Infringers , ODEM.blog, January 31, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
  14. ↑ Vera Zischke: Ansgar Heveling adds: “Bloggers will no longer have any relevance” , Westdeutsche Zeitung, January 31, 2012 (accessed on February 1, 2012).
  15. ↑ CDU: Heveling now legal advisor in Berlin , on rp-online.de
  16. ↑ a b German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Ansgar Heveling. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heveling, Ansgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt