Florian Toncar

Florian Toncar (born 18 October 1979) is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 until 2013 and since 2017.[1]

Florian Toncar
Florian Toncar in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
In office
2005 – 2013
Personal details
Born (1979-10-18) 18 October 1979
Hamburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFDP
Children3
Alma mater

Early life and education

After graduating from high school in 1999 at the Goldberg Gymnasium in Sindelfingen, Toncar first did his military service in the 220 communications regiment in Donauwörth and studied law in Regensburg from 2000. From 2002 to 2003 Toncar studied in Cambridge, then in Heidelberg. After passing the First State Examination in 2005 and completing his legal clerkship at Stuttgart District Court, he passed the Second State Examination in 2007.

Career

Since 2009 Toncar has been a lawyer specializing in banking and financial supervision.

Toncar first served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 until 2013, representing the Böblingen district. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (2005-2009) and the Budget Committee (2009-2013). On the Budget Committee, he served as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budgets of the Federal Ministry of the Interior; the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; the Federal Ministry of Justice; and the Federal Constitutional Court. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.

From 2011 until 2013, Toncar served as one of his parliamentary group’s deputy chairpersons, under the leadership of chairman Rainer Brüderle.

When the FDP failed to re-enter the German Bundestag in the 2013 elections, Toncar returned to the private sector and worked for the Frankfurt office of international commercial law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from March 2014 to October 2017.

Toncar became a member of the Bundestag again in the 2017 German federal election. He has since been serving as one of three parliamentary directors of the FDP parliamentary group.[2] In this capacity, he is a member of the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation.[3] He is also a member of the Finance Committee and serves as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on financial policy.[4] In this capacity, he was involved in the parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard scandal from 2020 until 2021.[5]

In 2020, Toncar joined the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG).

In addition to his committee assignments, Toncar is part of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.

References
  1. "Florian Toncar | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. "Fraktionsvorstand". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  3. "German Bundestag - Council of Elders". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  4. "German Bundestag - Finance". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  5. John O’Donnell and Tom Sims (February 2, 2021), German lawmakers turn sights on finance ministers in Wirecard fraud fiasco Reuters.
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