Hans Michelbach
{{short description|German politician}}
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| office = Member of the Bundestag for Coburg
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| caption = Hans Michelbach in 2012
| term_start = 1994
| term_end = 2021
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1949|5|3}}
| birth_place = Gemünden am Main, West Germany
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| party = CSU
| nationality = German
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Hans Michelbach (born 3 May 1949) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria from 1994 until 2021.
He represents Coburg.
Political career
Michelbach became a member of the Bundestag in the 1994 German federal election, representing Coburg.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/hans-michelbach|title=Dr. h.c. (Univ Kyiv) Hans Michelbach|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-23}} Throughout his time in parliament, he was a member of the Finance Committee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a07|title=German Bundestag - Finance|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}} From 1994 until 1998, he also served on the Budget Committee. In this capacity, he was also the party's main spokesman on budgetary matters.Sam Fleming and Guy Chazan (December 11, 2019), [https://www.ft.com/content/26707a24-1b69-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4 German politicians warn EU on looser budget rules for green drive] Financial Times.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Michelbach was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on economic policy, led by Ilse Aigner and Hubertus Heil. In the negotiations to form Merkel’s fourth coalition government following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on financial policies and taxes, led by Peter Altmaier, Andreas Scheuer and Olaf Scholz.
During his term in office, CSU politician Hans Michelbach received money as a partner in MIBEG Investment International, a project developer in the real estate industry.{{Cite news |last=Holscher |first=Max |last2=Pauly |first2=Marcel |date=2019-08-16 |title=Bundestag: Das sind die Top-Verdiener unter den Abgeordneten |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundestag-das-sind-die-top-verdiener-unter-den-abgeordneten-a-1280928.html |access-date=2024-01-10 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}
In October 2020, Michelbach announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[https://www.np-coburg.de/inhalt.coburg-bundestagswahl-michelbach-tritt-nicht-mehr-fuer-coburg-kronach-an.058af25f-f56f-455f-8bab-18e48716b69a.html Michelbach tritt nicht mehr für Coburg im Bundestag an], October 2020 (german)
Political positions
In June 2017, Michelbach was one of only seven CSU members who voted in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage.Bastian Brauns (June 30, 2017), [http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-06/cdu-csu-ehe-fuer-alle-ja-unentschieden-stimmen Die progressiven Ausreißer der Union] Die Zeit.
Within the German Parliament, Michelbach was a high-profile critic of Mario Draghi’s term as president of the European Central Bank.Martin Arnold (September 13, 2019), [https://www.ft.com/content/9039dd0e-d61f-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435630 Europe quantitative easing: Draghi faces chorus of criticism over fresh stimulus] Financial Times.
When European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni announced plans to re-examine the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact as part of a European Green Deal in late 2019, Michelbach warned the Commission against any attempt to loosen the EU’s budget rules: “Gentiloni’s plans are an attack on the stabilisation goals under the pretext of protecting the climate.”Sam Fleming and Guy Chazan (December 11, 2019), [https://www.ft.com/content/26707a24-1b69-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4 German politicians warn EU on looser budget rules for green drive] Financial Times.
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.hans-michelbach.de/startseite.html}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/michelbach_hans-522016 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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