Johannes Singhammer

Johannes Singhammer
Singhammer in 2012
Vice President of the German Bundestag
In office 2013–2017
Member of the G10 Commission
Incumbent
Assumed office 2018
Personal details
Born	(1953-05-09) 9 May 1953 (age 71) Munich, Germany
Political party	Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU)
Education	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Occupation	Politician

Johannes Singhanmer (born 9 May 1953), is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU). Between 2013 and 2017, he was one of the Vice-Presidents of the Bundestag.^[1]

Political career

Singhammer has been a member of the Christian Social Union since 1972.^[2] He was first elected to the German Bundestag in the 1994 federal elections, as representative of the Munich North constituency. He initially served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs as well as on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2013 federal elections, Singhammer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on health policy, led by Jens Spahn and Karl Lauterbach.

In July 2016, Singhammer announced that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.^[3]

By late 2017, Singhammer commissioned a comprehensive report on the right of Poland to demand reparations from Germany for World War II. German parliamentary legal experts later found any claims related to German crimes had become unfeasible at latest in 1990 when a treaty was signed by East and West Germany, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States ahead of German reunification.^[4]

Other activities

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Regulatory bodies

• Federal Network Agency, Member of the Advisory Board (2005–2009)
• Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP), Chairman of the Advisory Board (2002–2005)

Non-profits

• Hanns Seidel Foundation, Member^[5]
• Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Deutsches Museum, Member of the Board of Trustees
• German-Mozambican Society, Member of the Advisory Board
• Haus der Geschichte, Member of the Board of Trustees (1998–2002)

References

1. Too many funfairs, not enough toys: Germany's Christmas markets backlash, The Guardian, 1 December 2013
2. "German Bundestag - Homepage".
3. Felix Müller (13 July 2016), Paukenschlag in Münchens CSU! Johannes Singhammer macht Schluss TZ.
4. Michelle Martin and Lidia Kelly (31 August 2017), German legal experts say Poland has no right to WW2 reparations: report Reuters.
5. Board and Members, 2019 Archived 6 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine Hanns Seidel Foundation.