Bernd Fabritius
| Bernd Fabritius | |
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| Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria | |
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Assumed office 22 October 2013 |
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| Chairman of Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland | |
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Assumed office 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Volker Dürr |
| President of the Federation of Expellees | |
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Assumed office 7 November 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Erika Steinbach |
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14 May 1965 Agnita, Romania |
| Political party | Christian Social Union |
Bernd Fabritius (born 14 May 1965) is a German politician from Bavaria who is currently serving as a Member of the Bundestag for the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
Fabritius was born in Agnita, Sibiu County, Romania, and is a Transylvanian Saxon. He left communist Romania with his family in 1984; he has said his family and other Romanian Germans left Romania with a heavy heart and only due to state pressure of the then-communist regime. From 1985, he studied at the Bavarian University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Legal Affairs (FHVR). In 1996 he graduated in law from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Fabritius was first elected to the German Bundestag in the 2013 federal elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, its Sub-Committee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policies, and on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. On the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on discrimination.
Between 2014 and 2015, Fabritius was also a member of the Committee on Affairs of the European Union, where he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on relations with Ukraine and Romania. In 2015, he succeeded Peter Gauweiler as Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policies. In addition to his committee assignments, he serves as deputy chairman of the German-Romanian Parliamentary Friendship Group and as member of the German-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the German-US Parliamentary Friendship Group.
From 2014 to mid-2015, Fabritius briefly served as a full member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and on the Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities. Between 2015 and 2016, he served as the Assemby’s rapporteur on the rule of law in South-East European countries. Since 2016, he has been serving as rapporteur on the reform of Interpol and the rule of law in south-east European countries.
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