Johannes Steiniger

Johannes Steiniger (born 18 June 1987) is a German teacher and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013.

Johannes Steiniger
Johannes Steiniger in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1987-06-18) 18 June 1987
Bad Dürkheim, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partyCDU
Alma materUniversity of Mannheim

Political career

Early beginnings

Steiniger joined the CDU in 2003. From 2010 until 2018, he served as chairman of the Young Union (JU) in Rhineland-Palatinate.[1]

Member of the German Parliament, 2013–present

Steiniger first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Neustadt – Speyer district.[2] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Sports Committee.[3][4] On the Finance Committee, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on climate protection. From 2020 until 2021, he was also involved in the parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard scandal.[5]

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Steiniger voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election, Steiniger publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[7] For the 2021 national elections, he later endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.[8]

Controversy

In 2014, Steiniger led efforts to remove fellow politician Sven Heibel from the board of the JU in Rhineland-Palatinate after Heibel causing national outrage by calling for the partial reintroduction of criminal liability for homosexuality.[9][10]

References
  1. Dagmar Schindler-Nickel (6 November 2016), Johannes Steiniger aus Bad Dürkheim bleibt Landesvorsitzenden der Jungen Union Die Rheinpfalz.
  2. "Johannes Steiniger". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  3. "German Bundestag - Finance". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  4. "German Bundestag - Sports". German Bundestag. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  5. Bundestagsabgeordneter Johannes Steiniger im Wirecard-Ausschuss Die Rheinpfalz, 2 March 2021.
  6. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  7. Andreas Schröder (February 26, 2020), Zwei für Merz, einer für Laschet: Wen Pfälzer CDU-Abgeordnete unterstützen wollen Die Rheinpfalz.
  8. Veit Medick (March 29, 2021), Krise der Union: Erste CDU-Abgeordnete für Söder als Kanzlerkandidat Der Spiegel.
  9. Thomas Holl (12 June 2014), 20 Jahre nach Abschaffung: CDU-Politiker verteidigt Homosexuellen-Paragraph Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
  10. Nach homophoben Äußerungen: CDU-Politiker Heibel verliert Amt Frankfurter Rundschau, 2 March 2021.
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