Sebastian Brehm Explained

Sebastian Brehm
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:2017
Predecessor:Dagmar Wöhrl
Birth Date:1971 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Nürnberg, West Germany
Party:CSU
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

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.

Political career

In 1989 Brehm joined the CSU.

Brehm became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[1] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.[2] [3] 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.[4]

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 €.[5]

Since 2021, Brehm has been serving as one of two treasurers of the CSU, under the leadership of chairman Markus Söder.[6]

Other activities

Government agencies

Non-profit organizations

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.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sebastian Brehm. CDU/CSU-Fraktion. 2020-03-23.
  2. Web site: German Bundestag - Finance. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-23.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-23.
  4. Christian Ramthun (1 February 2022), Union erhöht den Druck: Das Soli-Problem des Christian Lindner Wirtschaftswoche.
  5. News: Holscher . Max . Pauly . Marcel . 2019-08-16 . Bundestag: Das sind die Top-Verdiener unter den Abgeordneten . 2024-01-10 . Der Spiegel . de . 2195-1349.
  6. https://www.zeit.de/news/2021-09/19/neuer-csu-vorstand-kommt-zusammen-praesenzsitzung-in-muenchen Neuer CSU-Vorstand kommt zusammen: Präsenzsitzung in München
  7. https://www.bpb.de/die-bpb/51246/kuratorium Board of Trustees
  8. Ellen Hasenkamp and Stefan Kegel (September 11, 2020), Brandkatastrophe: Rufe nach Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen werden lauterSchwäbisches Tagblatt].

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