Jan-Marco Luczak

Jan-Marco Luczak (born 2 October 1975) is a German lawyer and a politician (CDU). He represents the Tempelhof-Schöneberg constituency at the Bundestag.

Jan-Marco Luczak
Jan-Marco Luczak in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1975-10-02) 2 October 1975
Berlin
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Alma materLMU Munich
FU Berlin
OccupationLawyer

Biography

Luczak was born in West Berlin (Germany) on 2 October 1975. He attended the secondary school Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium in Tempelhof and passed his Abitur in 1995, after which he served the general conscription in the Bundeswehr.

Moreover, Luczak began to study law at the Free University of Berlin. After his first Staatsexamen, Luczak worked for an international law firm. On a scholarship program of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, he received the doctoral degree, Doctor of Laws, at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His dissertation („Die Europäische Wirtschaftsverfassung als Legitimationselement europäischer Integration“; translated: The European economic constitution as the legitimated element of European Integration) was supervised by Rupert Scholz, a former German Minister of Defence. He passed the second Staatsexamen in 2008.

Since 2008, Luczak has been working as a lawyer for law firm Hengeler Mueller in Berlin.[1]

Political career
Jan-Marco Luczak at CDU Party Congress (2012)

Since 1998, Luczak has been a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He held several different offices, including treasurer and regional chairman of the youth organization “Young Union” of the Christian Democrats. Furthermore, Luczak has been elected for chairman of the local CDU in Berlin-Lichtenrade in 2006. He has been the deputy chairman of the regional CDU in district Tempelhof-Schöneberg since 2007.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2009–present

In the 2009 federal elections, Luczak ran for the direct Membership of Parliament (MP) in his electoral district Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin. He won his electoral district with 32,4% (54.925 votes) of direct votes after 15 years for the CDU.[2] In the elections of 2013 he defended his mandate with 35% (60.926 votes).[3]

As a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs,[4] the Sub-Committee on European Law and as an alternate member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the majority of his work focuses on legal affairs and economic policy. Since 2014, he has been deputy chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs. In addition, he has been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

In addition to his committee assignments, Luczak is a member of the German Parliamentary Society. He was also a member of the German-French, the German-Polish and the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Groups before becoming deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Andes States (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela) in 2018. Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, he has been leading the group of CDU parliamentarians from Berlin since 2018.[5]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Luczak was part of the working group on urban development, led by Bernd Althusmann, Kurt Gribl and Natascha Kohnen.

Other activities

References
  1. "Profile at Hengeler.com".
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-01-12. Retrieved 2009-09-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Results of Bundestag elections in 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
  4. "German Bundestag - Homepage".
  5. Hildburg Bruns (April 24, 2018), Berliner Polit-Duell um EU: Welcher Berliner CDU-Mann löst das Ticket fürs Europäische Parlament? B.Z..
  6. Members of the Advisory Board Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA)
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