Klaus-Dieter Gröhler

Klaus-Dieter Gröhler (born 17 April 1966) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former public servant who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin since 2013.[1] From 2011 until 2013, he worked as the city councillor responsible for building and planning in western Berlin's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.[2]

Klaus-Dieter Gröhler
Klaus-Dieter Gröhler in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1966-04-17) 17 April 1966
Berlin-Wilmersdorf, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma materFree University of Berlin

Political career

Gröhler became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Berlin Charlottenburg – Wilmersdorf district.[3] He has since been a member of the Budget Committee.[4] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budgets of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. He is also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.

Since 2019, Gröhler has been leading a parliamentary inquiry into the 2016 Berlin truck attack.

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Gröhler voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.[5]

References
  1. "Klaus-Dieter Gröhler | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. Florian Gathmann (February 9, 2011), No Street, No Square, No Respect: What Does Berlin Have against Ronald Reagan? Der Spiegel.
  3. "Klaus-Dieter Gröhler". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. "German Bundestag - Budget". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  5. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
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