Michael Brand (politician)

Michael Brand (2013)

Michael Brand (born November 19, 1973 in Fulda ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005 .

Life

After graduating from the Winfried School in Fulda in 1994 , Brand did his military service and began studying political science , history and law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1995 , which he completed in 2001 as a Magister Artium (MA). During his studies, he worked from 1995 to 2000 at the European Balkan Institute in Bonn and spent 1997 to 1998, a study abroad in Sarajevo , where he in 1998 including as election observers of the OSCE was used. In Bonn, Brand also joined the academic Catholic student association Unitas -Salia. After completing his studies, Brand was press spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament and the CDU state association of Hesse until 2005 .

Michael Brand has been married since 2004 and has three children.

Political party

Michael Brand in Dadaab, Kenya

Brand joined the Junge Union (JU) as a schoolboy in 1988 and the CDU in 1993. Brand was a member of the board of directors of the JU district association in Fulda from 1991 to 1996 and was deputy district chairman from 1992 to 1996. From 2000 to 2001 Brand was press spokesman for JU Germany.

MP

Fire in the Bundestag, 2019

Brand has been a directly elected member of the German Bundestag since 2005 . Here he is a full member of the Defense Committee , the Committee on Home Affairs and the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid , Deputy Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliamentary Group , a full member of the Subcommittee “Civil Crisis Prevention and Networked Security” and a deputy member of the Budget Committee.

In the Bundestag election 2005 , Brand received 39.1% of the first votes in the Bundestag constituency of Fulda and thus moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Bundestag. In the 2009 federal election Brand received 49.8 percent of the primary vote, and in the federal election in 2013 , 58.3 percent.

In the German Bundestag, Brand is a full member of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid , the Committee for Home Affairs and Home Affairs , and the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Michael Brand is also represented as a deputy member of the Defense Committee and the Joint Committee .

Political positions - terminal care, expansion of palliative medicine and hospice care

Together with MPs from all parliamentary groups, he presented a draft law to ban business-like assisted suicide and was the main coordinator for this “perhaps the most demanding project of this legislative period ” (Bundestag President Norbert Lammert). After a passionate debate about four different group motions, the fire motion surprisingly received an absolute majority of 360 out of 602 votes cast in the German Bundestag on November 6, 2015 in the first ballot. The resulting law prohibiting commercial euthanasia was declared unconstitutional by the Federal Constitutional Court on February 26, 2020. Brand is a strong advocate of a massive expansion of palliative and hospice care in Germany. In January 2016, he took over the chairmanship of the Fulda eV hospice support association in his home town of Fulda .

Political Positions - Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid

Entry ban to China

The PRC refused entry for a delegation from the Bundestag to the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the end of May 2016, which Brand was supposed to lead as chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Human Rights . The Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the German Bundestag condemned the entry ban against Brand and the repeated attempts by the Chinese Ambassador and representatives of the Chinese People's Congress to influence the calendar and appearances at events and publications by Brand on the subject of human rights in Tibet . The committee declared unanimously that only the Bundestag decides on the composition of a delegation. The attempts by official Chinese representatives to influence the plans and appearances and publications of Brand on the subject of human rights in Tibet were condemned in a declaration passed by all political groups.

Turkey

Brand was one of the initiators of the Armenia resolution , which the German Bundestag passed on June 2, 2016 with only one vote against and one abstention. The decision provoked strong Turkish reactions. Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Berlin and President Erdogan attacked German MPs personally. As early as 2015, on the 100th anniversary, Brand had called for the “planned expulsion and extermination of over a million ethnic Armenians” and other Christian minorities to be clearly identified as genocide .

As the first German member of the Bundestag to travel to Turkey after the failed coup , he clearly denounced the state's crackdown on civil society, human rights activists, independent foundations, the media, the opposition and the judiciary, and warned the federal government against “whitewashing”. Among other things, he has taken on a sponsorship for the WELT journalist Deniz Yücel and is campaigning for his release as well as the German human rights activist Peter Steudtner and the director of Amnesty International Idil Eser . Brand was repeatedly banned from visiting German soldiers at the Incirlik base in Turkey and also in Konya, both on individual business trips and as a member of the Defense Committee delegation.

Humanitarian aid

As chairman of the committee, he increasingly focused the political focus on the topic of humanitarian aid - through public expert discussions on the topic of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit : Global refugee situation - ensuring the financing of growing humanitarian needs, hearings in the Bundestag on quality standards such as plenary debates.

Brand was a member of the German delegation to the 1st World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, and over 170 countries and 600 NGOs responded to the call of the UN Secretary General in Istanbul. He called for the perspective of humanitarian aid to change much more in the future - from purely reactive aid after a crisis to proactive action to avoid crises.

Publications

• as editor: Euthanasia or terminal care? The debate. Herder Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-30623-5 .
• Make the crisis a turning point. In: Wolfgang Ischinger , Dirk Messner (ed.): Germany's new responsibility. The future of German and European foreign, development and security policy. Econ-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-430-20235-0
• Migration and identity. A plea for more sincerity. Verlag Schöningh, Berlin 2018. In: Borders - the democratic constitutional state and the challenge of migration , pp. 187–202
• Out of Daytonistan - Europe must end its ambiguity. In: Bosnia in focus. The second political challenge of Christian Schwarz-Schilling. Hans Schiler Verlag , Berlin / Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89930-266-0 , p. 379 ff.
• Help victims, identify perpetrators! In: Documentation 20 years of society for threatened peoples Bosnia and Herzegovina - 20 years of search for justice, 20 years of commitment to victims, 20 years for the unified and undivided Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo 2017
• " Fulda Gap ": Soviet Army wanted the city of Fulda as their headquarters. In: History of the City of Fulda. Parzeller Buchverlag, Fulda 2008, ISBN 978-3-7900-0398-7 , p. 219ff.
• The desperate take despair, not life. About the protection of human dignity at the end of life. In: Compass "C". Berlin 2017
• We don't want to be dumb dogs. Kreuz Publishing House. Hamburg 2018. In: Faith, Love, Hope. The bible of politicians . Nikolaus Schneider (ed.), Pp. 39–41
• How Boniface got into the Reichstag. Michael Imhof Verlag , Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0591-2

Memberships

• since 2006 member of the Fulda district council
• Member of the program advisory board since 2009 and member of the Board of Trustees of the Point Alpha Foundation since 2013
• since 2009 member of the board of trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
• since 2010 member of the advisory board for the Rhön Biosphere Reserve
• since 2012 member of the Kuratorium Aktion Deutschland hilft
• since 2014 member of the Advisory Board for Children's Academy Fulda
• since 2015 member of the Chamber for Public Responsibility of the EKD
• since 2016: Chairman of the Fulda Hospice Association

Web links

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• CV at the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
• Michael Brand's website
• Michael Brand on parliamentwatch.de

Footnotes

1. ^ Members of the Defense Committee ( Memento of May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) German Bundestag , online, accessed on September 18, 2014.
2. ↑ Brand, Michael. (No longer available online.) In: Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016 ; accessed on April 21, 2016 . 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.  
3. ↑ Boards of the parliamentary groups in the 18th electoral period ( Memento from August 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ In the 2002 general elections was Martin Hohmann was elected; Hohmann was expelled from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in November 2003 .
5. ^ Hessian State Statistical Office: Election to the 17th German Bundestag on September 27, 2009 - constituency 175 Fulda
6. ↑ Constituency results : State of Hesse - constituency 174 - Fulda. Final result of the 2013 Bundestag election. (No longer available online.) Bundeswahlleiter.de, archived from the original on February 18, 2016 ; accessed on February 18, 2016 . 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.  
7. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved April 6, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Draft of a law on the criminal liability of commercial promotion of suicide. (PDF) German Bundestag, July 1, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2015 . 
9. ^ Bernhard Walker: Euthanasia Debate in Berlin: No trace of polemics. Badische Zeitung, November 7, 2015, accessed on November 7, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Martin Ferber: Euthanasia is not a case for service providers. Augsburger Allgemeine, November 6, 2015, accessed on November 6, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Hospiz Förderverein Fulda eV Hospiz Förderverein Fulda eV, February 1, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2016 . 
12. ↑ ^{a b} German Bundestag: Declaration of the committee on the entry ban in China against the committee chairman of May 11, 2016. (No longer available online.) May 11, 2016, archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2016 . 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.  
13. ↑ ISHR: ISHR calls on Merkel to show her backbone towards China. May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 19, 2016 . 
14. ↑ FAZ.net: Atmospheric disturbances
15. ↑ Mike Szymanski: Turkey calls ambassador back. Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 2, 2016, accessed on June 2, 2016 . 
16. ^ Motion from the CDU / CSU, SPD and BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN parliamentary groups: Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of the Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916. (PDF) German Bundestag, May 31, 2016, accessed on May 31, 2016 May 2016 . 
17. ^ Günter Bannas: Behind closed doors. Frankfurter Allgemeine, April 19, 2015, accessed on April 19, 2015 . 
18. ↑ Robert Birnbaum: The end of the quiet kicking: It was genocide. DER TAGESSPIEGEL, April 24, 2015, accessed on April 24, 2015 . 
19. ↑ Outcry against Erdogan. Image, November 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Severin Weiland: "We have a responsibility to call things by their names". In: Spiegel online. August 18, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016 . 
21. ↑ Thorsten Jungholt: "In truth, Deniz Yücel is a political hostage". Welt, March 2, 2017, accessed March 2, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Martin Kaul: "That is reminiscent of a dictatorship". taz.de, July 18, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017 . 
23. ↑ Melanie Berger: Merkel demands the release of Berlin human rights activists. DER TAGESSPIEGEL, July 18, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017 . 
24. ↑ Hanno Kautz and Karolina Pajdak: Is Erdogan trying to blackmail us? Image, May 15, 2017, accessed May 15, 2017 . 
25. ↑ Bundeswehr aims to withdraw from Incirlik. In: Spiegel online. May 15, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017 . 
26. ↑ Public expert discussion on the topic of the Humanitarian World Summit 2016: Global Refugee Situation - Securing the Financing of Growing Humanitarian Needs. (No longer available online.) German Bundestag, February 17, 2016, archived from the original on August 13, 2017 ; accessed on February 17, 2016 . 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.  
27. ↑ Quality standards for humanitarian aid - April 27, 2016. (No longer available online.) German Bundestag, April 27, 2016, archived from the original on August 13, 2017 ; Retrieved April 27, 2016 . 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.  
28. ↑ Michael Brand: Make the crisis a turning point. In: Germany's new responsibility. Wolfgang Ischinger, Dirk Messner, February 10, 2017, accessed on February 10, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Board of Directors. In: Fulda Hospice Association. Retrieved February 18, 2016 .