Volker Beck (politician)
| Volker Beck | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 1994 |
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12 December 1960 Stuttgart, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party |
 German:Alliance '90/The Greens  EU:The Greens–European Free Alliance |
Volker Beck (born 12 December 1960 in Stuttgart) is a German politician. He has been a sitting member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, for the Green Party since 1994. Beck served as the Green Party Speaker for Legal Affairs from 1994–2002, and as the Green Party Chief Whip in the Bundestag till 2013. He was spokesman of the Green Parliamentary Group for interior affairs and religion. In 2014 he was elected President of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group of the German Bundestag. Having been caught in possession of Crystal Meth, Beck resigned from his positions, only keeping his seat in the Bundestag.
Beck served as spokesman of the Association of Lesbians and Gays in Germany (Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland) LSVD for over ten years. He is a supporter of same-sex marriage and has been referred to as the "Father of the German Registered Partnership Act".
Beck served as spokesperson of the Green Party’s parliamentary group on legal affairs from 1994 to 2002, and as the Green Party Chief Whip in the Bundestag until 2013. He is spokesman of the Green Parliamentary Group for interior affairs and religion. In 2014 he was elected as chairman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Between 2001 and 2004 he was chief negotiator for his party on the new immigration law coming into to force 2005.
In a German Green leadership crisis he created the expression candystorm in support of Claudia Roth.
In 2013, Beck raised a furor in Germany when a statement from 1988 become public, calling for decriminalizing sexual contact with children.
On the evening of 1 March 2016, Berlin police officers conducting pocket searches on people exiting a known drug dealer's apartment found Beck to be in possession of 0.6 grammes of Crystal Meth. The following day Beck resigned from his positions, only keeping his seat in the Bundestag.
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