Axel Fischer (politician)
Axel Eduard Fischer (born May 5, 1966 in Karlsruhe ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 .
Life and work
After completing secondary school in 1983 at the vocational school for electrical engineering in Karlsruhe, Fischer completed an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer with a journeyman's certificate in 1985 . He then attended the Technical High School in Karlsruhe, where he obtained the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification in 1987 . After that he was a temporary soldier for two years and trained as a reserve officer . In 1989 Fischer began studying mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , which he completed in 1995 as a graduate engineer . After that he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Ergonomics and Business Organization ( ifab ) until he moved into the German Bundestag in 1998 .
Fischer is Protestant and is married for the second time. He has six children. His father is Werner Fischer , one of his brothers Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht .
Political party
From 1989 to 1995, Fischer was managing director of the Junge Union (JU) Nordbadens. From 1992 to 1993 he was a member of the state executive committee of the JU in Baden-Württemberg and has been a member of the CDU district executive committee for North Baden since 1993 . On December 1, 2008 he was elected to the federal executive committee at the federal party conference in Stuttgart .
MP
1998 went fishing on the national list Baden-Wuerttemberg and then always as directly selected delegates of the Bundestag constituency Karlsruhe-Land in the Bundestag one. In the 2005 Bundestag election it achieved 48.3 % of the first votes , in the 2009 Bundestag election 45.2% and in the 2013 Bundestag election 53.3% .
Fischer has been a member of the budget committee since 2009 , rapporteur for the CDU / CSU for the labor and social budget and a member of the parliamentary committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . He is also a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on European Union Affairs . In the 19th German Bundestag is Fischer Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Fischer has been a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since January 2006 and was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union until its dissolution (see Europe). He is also the chairman of the special committee pursuant to Section 3 (3) of the Stabilization Mechanism Act and a member of the German delegation in the Interparliamentary Union (IPU).
From May 2010 to April 2013, Fischer headed the Bundestag's "Internet and Digital Society" study commission . In the 18th German Bundestag he was a member of the committee pursuant to Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act .
Europe
Fischer was a member of the German delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the WEU and for many years chaired the committee for aerospace and technology. In this function he was a member of the Presidium of the WEU. He made a special contribution to his report on armored vehicles, which received international praise. After the dissolution of the parliamentary assembly of the Western European Union, Fischer was a founding member of the European Security and Defense Association (ESDA) based in Paris and is its vice-president to this day.
From January 2014 to 2017 he was head of the German delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe and spokesman for the CDU / CSU. He was also Vice-President of the Assembly and, since January 2016, Chairman of the EPP Group .
International
Fischer has been President of the World Anti-Communist League in Germany since September 2012 . He has campaigned for freedom, democracy and human rights for many years and is a supporter of these values in the Council of Europe. As chairman of the subcommittee for the European Prize at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Fischer has coordinated the award of this prize for many years.
Fischer has also been President of the European Council for World Freedom since May 2015.
Political positions
New construction of nuclear power plants
At the beginning of 2009, Fischer told Bild am Sonntag that after the decisions in Sweden, Finland, France and Great Britain, one must also think about building new nuclear power plants in Germany in the future .
Disguise prohibition on the Internet
In mid-November 2010, in a newspaper interview and on his personal Facebook page, Fischer demanded a “ ban on masking ”, ie an “obligation to use real names on the Internet” in all Internet forums without exception. In return, an “eraser” had to be developed with which you can delete content from the Internet. His request led to a large number of malicious replies on the Internet, especially via the micro-blogging service Twitter .
Memberships
Fischer is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.
Fischer has been President of the German section of the World League for Freedom and Democracy since 2012 .
criticism
A corruption scandal in connection with the Council of Europe has been known since 2013. The Milan public prosecutor's office charged the former head of the EPP , Luca Volontè , with money laundering and corruption . In the opinion of some MEPs, the clarification of the facts in the Council of Europe met with considerable resistance, among other things because of the then President of the Council of Europe, Pedro Agramunt Font de Mora . The German head of the delegation, Fischer, as chairman of the EPP parliamentary group (successor to Volontè), is also accused of not making sufficient efforts to clear up the affair. In a meeting of the parliamentary group, he is said to have reproduced the Volontès version. After the allegations of corruption became known, he asked for a register for non-governmental organizations in which their finances would be revealed. This move, which appears to be directed against the ESI and other organizations, is reminiscent of the law on "foreign agents" in Russia.
Fischer had also become conspicuous several times as an advocate of despots. In a central vote on the definition of political prisoners in 2012, he voted in favor of a motion from Azerbaijan that would have rendered the work of the rapporteurs on this issue de facto worthless. On the occasion of the re-election of President Ilcham Aliyev a year later, Fischer congratulated the regime on a “free, fair and transparent election”. The OSCE, on the other hand, had identified serious shortcomings. The first results had already been published the day before the election - allegedly a technical oversight.
Fischer is not supposed to have participated in this so-called "caviar diplomacy", but he is said to have slowed down the investigation of the scandal. The Union parliamentary group has therefore no longer appointed him to the new Bundestag delegation at the Council of Europe.
Web links
- Axel Fischer's website
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview: Gerwin Meets: Axel E. Fischer . ( Memento from March 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Elections: 22nd party congress of the CDU (results) ( Memento of January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 1, 2008
- ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Council-for-World-Freedom/1583957721855480
- ↑ cf. z. B. Union politicians for new nuclear power plants . focus.de, February 8, 2009.
- ↑ Baden's latest news
- ↑ facebook.com/notes/axel-fischer
- ↑ Axel E. Fischer on Wikiquote
- ↑ cf. z. B. CDU politician is embarrassed: Axel E. Fischer is no longer anonymous . In: taz , November 16, 2010
- ↑ Axel Fischer website of the European Union Germany. Retrieved January 11, 2018
- ↑ The Trace of Money , Der Tagesspiegel , March 22, 2017.
- ^ Seal of approval for dictators , Der Spiegel , July 16, 2016.
- ^ Karl-Otto Sattler: A step towards normality in "Das Parlament", No. 4–5, p. 8.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Axel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Axel Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5th 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |