Sebastian Brehm

Sebastian Brehm (born 18 October 1971) is a German tax advisor and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Sebastian Brehm
Sebastian Brehm in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Preceded byDagmar Wöhrl
Personal details
Born (1971-10-18) 18 October 1971
Nürnberg, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCSU
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen–Nuremberg

Political career

In 1989 Brehm joined the CSU.

Brehm became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[1] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.[2][3] In that capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on human rights issues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria, among others.

In 2019, German tabloid BILD reported that Brehm was the parliamentarian who reported the highest income from activities unrelated to his mandate that year.[4]

Other activities

Political positions

In September 2020, Brehm was one of 15 members of his parliamentary group who joined Norbert Röttgen in writing an open letter to Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer which called on Germany and other EU counties to take in 5000 immigrants who were left without shelter after fires gutted the overcrowded Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.[6]

References
  1. "Sebastian Brehm". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "German Bundestag - Finance". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. "German Bundestag - Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  4. Nebeneinkünfte im Bundestag: Welche Abgeordneten besonders fett abkassieren BILD, August 16, 2019.
  5. Board of Trustees Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB).
  6. Ellen Hasenkamp and Stefan Kegel (September 11, 2020), [https://www.tagblatt.de/Nachrichten/Rufe-nach-Aufnahme-von-Fluechtlingen-werden-lauter-471159.html Brandkatastrophe: Rufe nach Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen werden lauterSchwäbisches Tagblatt.
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