Sebastian Brehm
{{Short description|German politician}}
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| name = Sebastian Brehm
| image = Sebastian Brehm 2018.jpg
| caption = Brehm in 2018
| office = Member of the Bundestag
| term_start = 2017
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| predecessor = Dagmar Wöhrl
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1971|10|18}}
| birth_place = Nürnberg, West Germany
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| party = CSU
| nationality = German
| children =
| alma_mater = University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
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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.
Early life and career
After graduating from high school in 1991 in Nuremberg, he completed his military service in Amberg from 1991 to 1992. He then studied business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg from 1992 to 1998, graduating as a Diplom-Kaufmann. In 2002, he was appointed as a tax consultant by the Nuremberg Chamber of Tax Advisors and has been working as a self-employed tax consultant in Nuremberg since 2003.
His political engagement began in his youth: in 1988, he joined the Young Union and the CSU. From 1990 to 1992, he served as the chairman of the Schüler Union Nürnberg. From 2002 to 2017, he was a member of the Nuremberg City Council, and from 2009 to 2017, he held the position of faction leader of the CSU in the Nuremberg City Council{{Cite web |title=Abgeordnete, Sebastian Brehm, CDU/CSU |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/B/brehm_sebastian-857198 |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=Deutscher Bundestag}}
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Political career
Brehm became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/sebastian-brehm|title=Sebastian Brehm|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-23}} He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a07|title=German Bundestag - Finance|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/en/committees/a17|title=German Bundestag - Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid|website=German Bundestag|language=en|access-date=2020-03-23}} In that capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on human rights issues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria, among others.
Within his parliamentary group, Brehm coordinates the CSU parliamentarians’ legislative activities on financial policy.Christian Ramthun (1 February 2022), [https://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/union-erhoeht-den-druck-das-soli-problem-des-christian-lindner/28026802.html Union erhöht den Druck: Das Soli-Problem des Christian Lindner] Wirtschaftswoche.
In 2019, German media reported that Brehm was the parliamentarian who reported the highest income from activities unrelated to his mandate that year with 1.383.500 €.{{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}}
Since 2021, Brehm has been serving as one of two treasurers of the CSU, under the leadership of chairman Markus Söder.[https://www.zeit.de/news/2021-09/19/neuer-csu-vorstand-kommt-zusammen-praesenzsitzung-in-muenchen Neuer CSU-Vorstand kommt zusammen: Präsenzsitzung in München] Die Zeit.
Other activities
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- German Red Cross (DRK), Member (since 2005)
- Rotary International, Member (since 2003)
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.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.
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|https://www.sebastianbrehm.de/}} {{in lang|de}}
- [https://www.bundestag.de/en/members/518666-518666 Bundestag biography] {{in lang|en}}
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