Benjamin Strasser (politician)

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Benjamin Strasser (2018)

Benjamin Strasser (born February 9, 1987 in Weingarten , Württemberg) is a German lawyer and politician ( FDP ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Strasser grew up in Berg near Ravensburg in Upper Swabia. He attended secondary school at the St. Konrad Education Center and the commercial high school in Ravensburg. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Konstanz . Strasser completed his law studies in 2012 with the first state examination in law. After his legal clerkship at the Stuttgart Regional Court , which he completed with the second state examination in 2014, he worked as a parliamentary advisor for Ulrich Goll , Member of the FDP . In this function he was also responsible for the NSU inquiry committee of the state parliament . He has been a lawyer in Ravensburg since 2016.

Strasser is a Roman Catholic and single.

politics

Strasser has been a member of the FDP since 2006. Between 2010 and 2013 he was a member of the state board of the FDP youth organization Junge Liberale in Baden-Württemberg, where he was, among other things, deputy state chairman. Since November 2013 he has been a member of the state board of the Baden-Württemberg FDP . In December 2014 he was elected chairman of the Ravensburg FDP district association.

In the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2014 , Strasser was elected to the municipal council of his home municipality Berg , in the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2019 he was re-elected, and he was also elected to the district council of the Ravensburg district for the first time . In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 , Strasser was the candidate of the FDP in the constituency of Ravensburg and only narrowly missed entry into the state parliament. In the 2017 Bundestag election , he ran as a direct candidate in constituency 294 Ravensburg and was ranked 8th on the Baden-Württemberg state list of his party. He was elected to the 19th German Bundestag via the state list .

MP

In the 19th electoral term, Strasser is a full member of the Interior Committee of the Bundestag and a member of the committee pursuant to Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act . He is the rapporteur of the FDP parliamentary group for the authorities and organizations with security tasks (BOS) . These include the Federal Police , the Federal Criminal Police Office , the intelligence services, customs as well as authorities and organizations involved in non-police security ( THW , fire brigades , emergency services ). On February 11, 2020, Strasser was unanimously elected chairman of the FDP parliamentary group in the interior committee of the German Bundestag. He succeeds Linda Teuteberg . Since May 2020, Strasser has been the spokesman for churches, religious and ideological communities and anti-Semitism commissioner for the FDP parliamentary group.

In addition, Strasser is a full member and chairman of his parliamentary group in the 1st committee of inquiry of the 19th electoral term (Breitscheidplatz). The committee of inquiry is supposed to get an overall picture of the terrorist attack on December 19, 2016 on Breitscheidplatz in Berlin , the assassin, his person and his alias identities, his environment and his contacts as well as possible accomplices, backers and supporters.

Strasser is the deputy chairman of the German- Austrian parliamentary group and a simple member of the German- Israeli parliamentary group. He represents the FDP parliamentary group in the committee under Section 23c (8) of the Customs Investigation Service Act . Strasser is also the secretary .

Political positions

As part of his work, Strasser is particularly committed to identifying possible structural problems and reforms in the German security architecture. Among other things, he advocates putting the Joint Anti-Terrorism Center (GTAZ) on a legal basis. Strasser also advocates the establishment of a Federalism Commission III to reorganize the distribution of competencies between the federal government and the states in matters of internal security.

The leadership of V-people he sees critical and keeps them only within narrow constitutional limits justified. In order to improve the control of intelligence services, Strasser proposes the introduction of an intelligence commissioner for the German Bundestag - analogous to the defense commissioner . With adequate staffing, this should permanently monitor the work of the intelligence services and, in contrast to the permanent plenipotentiary, not only report to the parliamentary control body , but to the entire parliament and thus indicate the need for reform.

Strasser has been heavily involved in the fight against right-wing extremism since his activity in the 1st NSU investigation committee of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. As a result of the election of Thomas L. Kemmerich as Thuringian Prime Minister with votes from the AfD on February 5, 2020 and the resulting public debate, Strasser was appointed chairman of an internal working group at the suggestion of the FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Lindner . This should analyze the strategy of the AfD as well as its narratives and methods and develop appropriate parliamentary defense strategies.

Memberships

Strasser is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process. Since June 2018 he has been an advisory board member of the Public Security Future Forum (ZÖS). He is also a member of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) , Amnesty International , the Berg Blood Rider Group and the St. Peter and Paul Church Choir , Berg.

At the founding meeting of the Federal Music Association for Choirs & Orchestra on March 29, 2019 in Gotha , Strasser was elected President of the new umbrella association for amateur music in Germany, which represents around 3 million active members in 100,000 ensembles in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV on Benjamin Strasser's homepage. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2018 ; accessed on April 10, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.benjamin-strasser.de
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Benjamin Strasser. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ www.benjamin-strasser.de
  4. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung , December 17, 2014
  5. ^ City council election 2019 Berg. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Public announcement of the results of the election of the district councils on May 26, 2019. Accessed on June 17, 2019 .
  7. ^ FDP elects Strasser as its chairman in the interior committee. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  8. ^ Strasser is the new religious policy spokesman for the FDP. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  9. ^ German Bundestag - 1st committee of inquiry . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  10. ↑ a b German Bundestag - Benjamin Strasser . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
  11. ^ WORLD: Police: FDP interior expert Strasser calls for renovation of the German security architecture . In: THE WORLD . November 23, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed December 4, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Almost surrounded by informers. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  13. ↑ FDP wants to develop parliamentary defense strategies. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Geli Tangermann: FDP: "The question is how we can make the AfD small" . In: THE WORLD . February 18, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on March 21, 2020]).
  15. ↑ Home. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Strasser, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Vineyard