Andreas Schwarz

{{Short description|German politician (born 1965)}}

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| office = Member of the Bundestag

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| caption = Andreas Schwarz in 2014

| term_start = 2013

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1965|3|3}}

| birth_place = Berleburg, West Germany
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| party = SPD

| nationality = German

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| alma_mater = Technische Hochschule Nürnberg

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Andreas Schwarz (born 3 March 1965) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.

Political career

Schwarz became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spdfraktion.de/abgeordnete/schwarz|title=Andreas Schwarz, MdB|date=2013-09-23|website=SPD-Bundestagsfraktion|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}}

In his first term from 2013 until 2017, Schwarz served on the Finance Committee. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Budget Committee and the Audit Committee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a08|title=German Bundestag - Budget|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-21}} In this capacity, he serves as the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Defence.Gursimran Kaur, Holger Hansen and Vera Eckert (12 November 2023), [https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-set-double-its-ukraine-military-aid-under-scholz-plan-bloomberg-news-2023-11-12/ Germany set to double Ukraine military aid under Scholz plan] Reuters. Since 2022, he has been 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.[https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw07-de-wahl-gremien-879542 Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt] Bundestag, press release of 17 February 2022. Also 2022, he joined the parliamentary body charged with overseeing a 100 billion euro special fund to strengthen Germany's armed forces.

Other activities

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