Christoph Strässer

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Christoph Strässer (born June 12, 1949 in Velbert ) is a German politician ( SPD ). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2017 . From 2005 to 2014 Strässer was the spokesman for the working group on human rights and humanitarian aid of the SPD parliamentary group, from January 2014 to February 2016 the federal government’s commissioner for human rights policy and humanitarian aid .

Life

job

Strässer started school in 1954 at the Catholic elementary school Südstraße Velbert. After graduating from high school in 1967, Strässer did his military service and then from 1969 studied law at the Ruhr University in Bochum and the University of Münster , which he completed in 1974 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship , Strässer also passed the second state examination. Since 1980 he has been working as a lawyer in Münster and since 1993 with a second law firm in Wittenberg . Strässer is a specialist lawyer for tax law and a specialist lawyer for administrative law .

Christoph Strässer is married.

Political party

In 1969, Strässer joined the left-wing liberal youth organization Young Democrats, which was close to the FDP at the time, and from May 1972 was a member of the first federal board of the newly founded Liberal University Association (LHV). From 1977 to 1982 he was federal chairman of the Young Democrats and also a member of the federal executive committee of the FDP. 1980 Strässer was one of the first signatories of the Krefeld Appeal of the peace movement .

In 1980, as chairman of the Young Democrats, he contributed to a resolution according to which "voluntary and consensual sexuality" between children and adults should be free from punishment. According to Strässer, this formulation was removed from the program two years later. In October 2013, Strässer described the decision in retrospect as “gross nonsense” and stated that he had not pushed it himself.

After the break with the social-liberal coalition in autumn 1982 , Strässer left the FDP in 1982; In 1984 he joined the SPD . From 1993 to 2007 he was chairman of the SPD sub-district of Münster. In the local elections in 2004, Strässer was the SPD candidate for the office of Lord Mayor of Münster, but could not prevail in the runoff election with 46.2% of the votes against Berthold Tillmann ( CDU ).

MP

From 1999 to 2002 Strässer was a member of the Münster City Council.

He has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2002 Bundestag election . From 2002 to 2005 he was deputy spokesman, from 2005 to 2014 spokesman for the working group on human rights and humanitarian aid of the SPD parliamentary group . Strasser was a member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee and the Legal Affairs Committee from 2002 to 2014 . From December 2002 to February 2009 he was also the representative of the SPD parliamentary group for liberal professions .

Until 2014 Strässer was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU) . He was the Council of Europe Commissioner for the Situation of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan.

Strässer moved into the Bundestag in 2002 and 2005 as a directly elected member of the Münster constituency . He is the first social democrat to win this constituency in a federal election. In doing so, he narrowly prevailed against the CDU candidate Ruprecht Polenz .

For the 2009 Bundestag election , Strässer again ran as a direct candidate for the Münster constituency; Polenz received more votes . Strässer moved into the Bundestag via the state list of the SPD NRW .

From 2005 to 2014 he was the spokesman for the human rights and humanitarian aid working group of the SPD parliamentary group. Strässer did not run again in the 2017 federal election .

Human rights officer

In January 2014 Strässer was appointed Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid . On February 22, 2016, he announced his resignation at the end of the month due to personal overload and the incompatibility of his positions with the “planned tightening of the asylum laws”. In his resignation letter, he stated: "At the same time, I do not want to hide the fact that in my field of work, particularly in the area of ​​refugee policy ( Asylum Package II ), political decisions are emerging that are difficult for me to reconcile with my own positions and my own credibility" .

Honorary positions

Strasser is a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft , the alliance of aid organizations, and the German Institute for Human Rights. He supports the exhibition "I'll get you - children affected by war" by World Vision , which belongs to this alliance.

Since October 13, 2016, he has also been the club president of SC Preußen 06 eV Münster .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christoph Strässer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Westfälische Nachrichten, August 29, 2019, RMS01.
  2. Schulte von Drach : A scandal that is long history - Comment in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 13, 2013.
  3. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  4. The Bundestag is losing many familiar faces , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on June 23, 2017
  5. Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, Federal Foreign Office
  6. ^ A b Refugee policy of the federal government: Human rights commissioner Strässer resigns. Spiegel online, February 22, 2016, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  7. Human rights officer Strässer resigns. (No longer available online.) In: Deutschlandfunk. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016 ; accessed on February 22, 2016 (German).
  8. http://www.christoph-straesser.de/meldung.php?meldung=2587&page=0
  9. "I'll get you - children affected by war". Federal Foreign Office, February 10, 2010, accessed on March 22, 2011 .
  10. For many children war is very serious. In: Westfälische Nachrichten of August 26, 2010.
  11. What war means for children. In: Münstersche Zeitung of August 26, 2010.
  12. Committees: Presidium. Press release. SC Preußen 06 eV Münster, October 2016, accessed on October 15, 2016 .
  13. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Christoph Strässer. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. Aschendorff Medien GmbH & Co. KG, December 15, 2016, accessed on December 15, 2016 : "Münster's member of the Bundestag Christoph Strässer has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany among other members of the German Bundestag."