Anton Hofreiter
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{{Short description|German politician (born 1970)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Anton Hofreiter
| image = 2024-05-28-Anton Hofreiter-Hart aber fair-5335.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Hofreiter in 2024
| order =
| office = Chair of the Committee on European Affairs
| term_start = 15 December 2021
| term_end =
| predecessor = Gunther Krichbaum
| successor =
| office1 = Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag
| term_start1 = 8 October 2013
| term_end1 = 7 December 2021
| alongside1 = Katrin Göring-Eckardt
| predecessor1 = Jürgen Trittin
| successor1 = Katharina Dröge
| office2 = Chair of the Transport, Construction and Urban Development Committee
| term_start2 = 8 June 2011
| term_end2 = 8 October 2013
| predecessor2 = Winfried Hermann
| successor2 = Martin Burkert
| office3 = Member of the Bundestag
for Bavaria
| term_start3 = 18 September 2005
| term_end3 =
| constituency3 = Alliance 90/The Greens List
| birth_name = Anton Gerhard Hofreiter
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1970|2|2}}
| birth_place = Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
| party = Alliance 90/The Greens
| alma_mater = Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
| profession = Politician, biologist
| website = {{url|toni-hofreiter.de}}
}}
Anton Gerhard "Toni" Hofreiter{{Cite news |last=Schwietering |first=Caspar |last2=Ziedler |first2=Christopher |date=16 December 2023 |title=Hofreiter kritisiert deutsche Ukraine-Politik: 'Die Aussagen des Kanzlers passen nicht immer zu seinem Handeln' |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/anton-hofreiter-kritisiert-ukrainepolitik-die-worte-des-kanzlers-passen-nicht-zu-seinem-handeln-10931857.html |access-date=2025-02-03 |work=Der Tagesspiegel |language=de |issn=1865-2263}} (born 2 February 1970) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2005 elections.
Political career
As a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, Hofreiter has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he served as member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development; he served as chairman of the committee from 2011 until 2013. He was also member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Hofreiter served as co-chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group, together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt from October 2013 to December 2021.Christina Hebel, Christoph Sydow: [http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/katrin-goering-eckardt-und-anton-hofreiter-werden-gruenen-fraktionschefs-a-926745.html Fraktionsspitze: Göring-Eckardt gewinnt Kampfabstimmung bei Grünen.] In: Spiegel Online, 8. Oktober 2013. In 2013, he was elected unopposed as the sole candidate of the group's left faction.Quentin Peel (8 October 2013), [http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e8307fd6-301c-11e3-9eec-00144feab7de.html Germany Greens set to test waters for possible CDU coalition] Financial Times. In September 2019, both Hofreiter and Göring-Eckardt were unsuccessfully challenged by Cem Özdemir and Kirsten Kappert-Gonther.{{Cite news |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/oezdemirs-gescheiterte-kandidatur-den-versuch-wars-wert/25052114.html |title=Den Versuch war's wert |access-date=28 September 2019 |language=de}}
In 2011, Hofreiter joined Gerhard Schick, Hans-Christian Ströbele and Winfried Hermann in their successful 2011 constitutional complaint against the refusal of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to provide information on the Deutsche Bahn and financial market supervision. In its judgment pronounced in 2017, the Federal Constitutional Court held that the government had indeed failed to fulfil its duty to give answers in response to parliamentary queries and to sufficiently substantiate the reasons.[http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2017/bvg17-094.html The Federal Government's refusal to provide information on the Deutsche Bahn AG and financial market supervision was unlawful] Federal Constitutional Court, press release no. 94/2017 of 7 November 2017.
Since the 2021 elections, Hofreiter has been serving as chairman of the Committee on European Affairs.Jonas Schaible (6 December 2021), [https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/hofreiter-soll-vorsitz-im-europaausschuss-uebernehmen-a-3392dba1-d406-43a7-a88f-26ea3a5e1016 Kein Platz im Kabinett: Hofreiter soll Vorsitz im Europaausschuss übernehmen] Der Spiegel. In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[https://www.bundestag.de/dfpv Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly] Bundestag.
Political positions
= Human rights =
Following 2012 reports by Spiegel Online according to which a luxury Boeing 767 belonging to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was refitted by Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg with expensive accoutrement to further accommodate Lukashenko's expensive tastes, Hofreiter criticized the company for cooperating with a "dictator who gives orders for the death penalty and violently destroys the opposition".Quentin Peel (8 October 2013), [http://www.rferl.org/content/belarus-lukashenka-boeing-767-germany-luxury/24768845.html] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 12 November 2012.
In January 2015, Hofreiter criticized a decision by police in the eastern city of Dresden to ban an anti-Islam march after death threats toward an organizer, slamming the move as a worrying restriction on freedom of speech.{{Cite news|last1=Torry|first1=Harriet|last2=Troianovski|first2=Anton|author-link2=Anton Troianovski|date=19 January 2015|title=German Lawmakers Slam Police Ban on Pegida Protest|language=en|work=The Wall Street Journal|location=Berlin|url=https://online.wsj.com/articles/german-lawmakers-slam-police-ban-on-pegida-protest-1421673917|url-access=registration|issn=0099-9660}} In the European migration crisis, Hofreiter is an outspoken proponent of a liberal migration policy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/fluechtlingskrise--bund-und-laender-einigen-sich-auf-kostenverteilung-6467130.html|title = Bund übernimmt pro Flüchtling und Monat 670 Euro| date=24 September 2015 }}
= European integration =
In a 2014 debate on a reform of the voting rules in the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Hofreiter strongly criticized calls for a power of veto, saying to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann is not Germany's vicegerent in the ECB Council".[http://www.euractiv.com/sections/euro-finance/ecb-voting-rights-rotation-raises-fears-germany-302884 ECB voting rights 'rotation' raises fears in Germany] EurActiv, 19 June 2014.
Other activities
- Denkwerk Demokratie, Member of the Advisory Board
- German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.toni-hofreiter.de/ Official website]
- [https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/anton-hofreiter-ein-mann-wie-ein-fluss-12615275.html Biography] (FAZ.net, October 2013)
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