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German politician (born 1970)
Anton Hofreiter
Hofreiter in 2014
Chair of the Committee on European Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 December 2021
Preceded byGunther Krichbaum
Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag
In office
8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021Serving with Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Preceded byJürgen Trittin
Succeeded byKatharina Dröge
Chair of the Transport, Construction and Urban Development Committee
In office
8 June 2011 – 8 October 2013
Preceded byWinfried Hermann
Succeeded byMartin Burkert
Member of the Bundestag
for Bavaria
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 September 2005
ConstituencyAlliance 90/The Greens List
Personal details
BornAnton Gerhard Hofreiter
(1970-02-02) 2 February 1970 (age 54)
Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Political partyAlliance 90/The Greens
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
ProfessionPolitician, biologist
Websitetoni-hofreiter.de

Anton "Toni" Hofreiter (born 2 February 1970) is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2005 elections.

Political career

As a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, Hofreiter has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he served as member of the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development; he served as chairman of the committee from 2011 until 2013. He was also member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Hofreiter served as co-chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group, together with Katrin Göring-Eckardt from October 2013 to December 2021. In 2013, he was elected unopposed as the sole candidate of the group's left faction. In September 2019, both Hofreiter and Göring-Eckardt were unsuccessfully challenged by Cem Özdemir and Kirsten Kappert-Gonther.

In 2011, Hofreiter joined Gerhard Schick, Hans-Christian Ströbele and Winfried Hermann in their successful 2011 constitutional complaint against the refusal of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to provide information on the Deutsche Bahn and financial market supervision. In its judgment pronounced in 2017, the Federal Constitutional Court held that the government had indeed failed to fulfil its duty to give answers in response to parliamentary queries and to sufficiently substantiate the reasons.

Since the 2021 elections, Hofreiter has been serving as chairman of the Committee on European Affairs. In addition to his committee assignments, he has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.

Political positions

Human rights

Following 2012 reports by Spiegel Online according to which a luxury Boeing 767 belonging to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was refitted by Lufthansa Technik in Hamburg with expensive accoutrement to further accommodate Lukashenko's expensive tastes, Hofreiter criticized the company for cooperating with a "dictator who gives orders for the death penalty and violently destroys the opposition".

In January 2015, Hofreiter criticized a decision by police in the eastern city of Dresden to ban an anti-Islam march after death threats toward an organizer, slamming the move as a worrying restriction on freedom of speech. In the European migration crisis, Hofreiter is an outspoken proponent of a liberal migration policy.

European integration

In a 2014 debate on a reform of the voting rules in the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Hofreiter strongly criticized calls for a power of veto, saying to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann is not Germany's vicegerent in the ECB Council".

Other activities

References

  1. Christina Hebel, Christoph Sydow: Fraktionsspitze: Göring-Eckardt gewinnt Kampfabstimmung bei Grünen. In: Spiegel Online, 8. Oktober 2013.
  2. Quentin Peel (8 October 2013), Germany Greens set to test waters for possible CDU coalition Financial Times.
  3. "Den Versuch war's wert" (in German). Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  4. The Federal Government's refusal to provide information on the Deutsche Bahn AG and financial market supervision was unlawful Federal Constitutional Court, press release no. 94/2017 of 7 November 2017.
  5. Jonas Schaible (6 December 2021), Kein Platz im Kabinett: Hofreiter soll Vorsitz im Europaausschuss übernehmen Der Spiegel.
  6. Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly Bundestag.
  7. Quentin Peel (8 October 2013), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 12 November 2012.
  8. Torry, Harriet; Troianovski, Anton (19 January 2015). "German Lawmakers Slam Police Ban on Pegida Protest". The Wall Street Journal. Berlin. ISSN 0099-9660.
  9. "Bund übernimmt pro Flüchtling und Monat 670 Euro". 24 September 2015.
  10. ECB voting rights 'rotation' raises fears in Germany EurActiv, 19 June 2014.

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