Eva Högl

Eva Alexandra Ingrid Irmgard Anna Högl (née Kampmeyer, born 6 January 1969) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, since 2009. Högl has been a member of her party since 1987. From 2013 until 2020, she served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group.[1] In May 2020 she became Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of Germany.

Eva Högl
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
In office
22 October 2013 – 25 May 2020
LeaderThomas Oppermann
Andrea Nahles
Rolf Mützenich
Preceded byChristine Lambrecht
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin Mitte
In office
27 September 2009 – 25 May 2020
Preceded byJörg-Otto Spiller
Member of the Bundestag
for Berlin
In office
12 January 2009 – 27 September 2009
Wehrbeauftragter des Deutschen Bundestages
Assumed office
28 May 2020
Preceded byHans-Peter Bartels
Personal details
Born (1969-01-06) 6 January 1969
Osnabrück, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political partySocial Democratic Party (SPD)
Alma mater

Early career

Högl was born in Osnabrück. From 1999 until 2009, she worked at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) in Berlin. At the ministry, she was head of the unit in charge of European labor and social policy between 2006 and 2009.[2]

Political career

Career in state politics

Since 2007, Högl has been a member of the executive board of the SPD in Berlin, under the leadership of party chairman Michael Müller. Before the 2008 elections in Lower Saxony, candidate Wolfgang Jüttner included Högl in his shadow cabinet for the Social Democrats’ – unsuccessful – campaign to unseat incumbent Minister-President Christian Wulff. During the campaign, she served as shadow minister for regional development and European affairs.[3][4]

Member of Parliament, 2009–present

Högl has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2009, representing the constituency of Berlin Mitte. In her first full legislative term from 2009 until 2013, she was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on European Affairs. On the latter committee, she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on the 2010 European Union directive on the rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings. In addition to her committee assignments, she served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Dutch Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2010 until 2013. Within the SPD parliamentary group, she was a member of the working group on municipal policy from 2009 until 2017.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Högl was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on families, women and equality, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz and Manuela Schwesig.

From December 2013 until May 2020,[5] Högl served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of successive chairpersons Thomas Oppermann (2013-2017), Andrea Nahles (2017-2019) and Rolf Mützenich (2019-2020). In addition, she was appointed to the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. She also served on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). In 2019, she joined the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany's intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD.[6]

In the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Högl was part of the working group on migration and integration, led by Volker Bouffier, Joachim Herrmann and Ralf Stegner.[7][8]

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, 2020–present

In May 2020 Högl was appointed Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces of Germany.

Other activities

Corporate boards
  • Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR), Member of the Advisory Board[9]

Non-profit organizations

Political positions

Högl has been a vocal proponent of banning the extreme rightwing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), arguing that a ban would “hit the party as an organisation and also stop it being financed by taxpayers”.[13]

Högl has also demanded improved voting rights for foreigners living in Germany.[1]

Personal life

Högl is married to an architect. The couple resides in Berlin’s Wedding district, in the same building as Peer Steinbrück.[14]

Sources
  1. SPD-Fraktionsvize Högl will Wahlrecht für Ausländer erweitern, Frankfurter Allgemeine
  2. Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach (February 8, 2019), Neue SPD-Ministerin? Eva Högl hat es wohl geschafft Der Tagesspiegel.
  3. Schattenkabinette Die Tageszeitung, January 30, 2008.
  4. Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach (February 8, 2019), Neue SPD-Ministerin? Eva Högl hat es wohl geschafft Der Tagesspiegel.
  5. Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach (February 8, 2019), Neue SPD-Ministerin? Eva Högl hat es wohl geschafft Der Tagesspiegel.
  6. SPD-Politikerin Högl neu im Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremium Die Zeit, November 7, 2019.
  7. Joachim Fahrun (January 15, 2018), Michael Müller verhandelt über große Koalition mit Berliner Morgenpost.
  8. Melanie Amann, Veit Medick, Ralf Neukirch and René Pfister (January 19, 2018), Distrust and Anger: Inside Germany's Rocky Coalition Talks Spiegel Online.
  9. Advisory Board Berliner Stadtreinigung (BSR).
  10. Advisory Board German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG).
  11. Board of Trustees Europäische Akademie für Frauen in Politik und Wirtschaft Berlin.
  12. Members Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES).
  13. Guy Chazan (January 17, 2017), Germany’s top court blocks ban on far-right NPD Financial Times.
  14. Ulrike Ruppel (July 21, 2013), Wie ist Peer Steinbrück als Nachbar, Frau Högl? B.Z..
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