Dirk Fischer (politician)

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Dirk Fischer
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Fischer in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
for Hamburg
In office
4 November 1980 – 24 October 2017
Succeeded by Christoph Ploß
Constituency
Member of the Hamburg Parliament
In office
February 1971 – 5 February 1981
Succeeded by Helga Mack
Personal details
Born (1943-11-29) 29 November 1943 (age 81)
Bevensen, Germany
Political party Christian Democratic Union
Awards German Order of Merit First Class (1994)

Dirk Fischer (born 29 November 1943) is a German politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.[1] Between 1980 and 2017, he was an MP of the German Bundestag as the representative for Hamburg-Nord constituency. For many years, Fischer was transport policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction.[2] He is also president of Hamburg Football Association (HFV) and a board member of German Football Association (DFB).[3]

Early life and education

Fischer was born in Bevensen. After high school, Fischer served as a Bundeswehr soldier from 1964 to 1966. Afterwards he studied law at the University of Hamburg. After graduation in 1978 he worked at Hamburg company Möller + Förster until 1986.[4] Since 1982, he is also licensed as a lawyer.[2]

Political career

Fischer was a member of Hamburgische Bürgerschaft, the parliament of Hamburg, from 1971 to 5 February 1981.

From 1980, Fischer was a member of the German Bundestag. From 1989 to 2014 he was also transport policy spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.[5][6][7][8] From 1992 to 2007 he was chairman of CDU Hamburg. From 1994 to 2014 Fischer was chairman of the Hamburg state group in the Bundestag.[2]

In the 18th legislation period, Fischer was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure.[9]

In October 2016, Fischer announced that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[10]

Other activities

Since November 2007, Fischer has been serving as president of Hamburg Football Association (HFV) and a board member of German Football Association (DFB).[3] He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation.[11]

Recognition

In September 1994, Fischer received the German Order of Merit First Class.[12]

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dirk Fischer Archived 7 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Bundestag.de, in German
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 DFB-Bundestag: Ratzeburg, Fischer und Pothe gewählt, HFV.de, in German
  4. ↑ Handbuch der Hamb. Bürgerschaft, Dirk Fischer WP 9, 2. Nachtrag 1981
  5. ↑ "Andreas Lubitz told Lufthansa flight school of 'serious depressive episode'". The Guardian, Ben Knight 31 March 2015
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  7. ↑ "Should airline pilots have less medical privacy?". The Conversation, 15 April 2015
  8. ↑ "Germanwings crash: Details are clearer but motive remains unknown". World Socialist Website, By Christoph Dreier 3 April 2015
  9. ↑ "Germanwings crash co-pilot Andreas Lubitz body parts 'found'". The Telegraph, Gregory Walton, Dusseldorf, 30 March 2015
  10. ↑ Nadja Aswad (5 October 2016), Dirk Fischer verlässt Bundestag BILD.
  11. ↑ Board of Trustees Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation.
  12. ↑ Fischer geehrt, Hamburger Abendblatt, 24 September 1994 Archived 11 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine (PDF; 1.6 MB), in German
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