Michael Frieser

Michael Frieser (born 30 March 1964) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2009.

Michael Frieser
Michael Frieser in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1964-03-30) 30 March 1964
Nürnberg, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCSU

Political career

Frieser became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing Nuremberg.[1] In parliament, he first served on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid (2009-2013), the Committee on Legal Affairs (2009-2013) and the Committee on Internal Affairs (2009-2017).

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU together with the CSU) and the Social Democrats following the 2013 federal elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit. In similar negotiations following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on migration policy, led by Volker Bouffier, Joachim Herrmann and Ralf Stegner.

Since 2018, Frieser has been a member of the Committee on Cultural Affairs and the Media and the Committee on the Verification of Credentials, Immunities and Rules of Procedure.[2][3] He is an alternate member of 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, he joined a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[4]

Political positions

In June 2017, Frieser voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[5]

Personal life

In March 2020, Frieser tested positive for coronavirus.[6]

References
  1. "Michael Frieser". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. "German Bundestag - Cultural and Media Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  3. "German Bundestag - Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  4. Robert Roßmann (January 20, 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  5. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.
  6. Nordbayern.de: Nürnberger Bundestagsabgeordneter positiv getestet
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