Andreas Schwarz Explained

Andreas Schwarz
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:2013
Birth Date:1965 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Berleburg, West Germany
Party:SPD
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:Technische Hochschule Nürnberg

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.[1]

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.[2] In this capacity, he serves as the SPD parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Defence.[3] 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.[4] 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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andreas Schwarz, MdB. 2013-09-23. SPD-Bundestagsfraktion. de. 2020-03-21.
  2. Web site: German Bundestag - Budget. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-21.
  3. Gursimran Kaur, Holger Hansen and Vera Eckert (12 November 2023), Germany set to double Ukraine military aid under Scholz plan Reuters.
  4. https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2022/kw07-de-wahl-gremien-879542 Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt