Reinhard Brandl
| Reinhard Brandl | |
|---|---|
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
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Assumed office 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Horst Seehofer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
11 August 1977 Ingolstadt, Bavaria |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party |
 German:Christian Social Union  EU:European People's Party |
| Alma mater |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Grenoble Institute of Technology, Technische Universität München |
Dr. Reinhard Brandl (born Ingolstadt, August 1, 1977) is a member of the German Bundestag, representing Ingolstadt.[1] He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.
Early life and education
Following his military service with the German Air Force in Manching, Brandl earned a degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble between 1997 and 2003. For his diploma theses he stayed six months at the Xerox Research Centre Europe in Meylan. He subsequently took part in the doctoral program of the BMW Group.[2] In 2009, he briefly worked as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group.
Political career
Brand was elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 national elections, succeeding Horst Seehofer.
Brandl has been a member of the Defense Committee since 2009. In 2013, he joined the Budget Committee, where he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the budget of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). In addition, he is a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany’s three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 German elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on digital policy, led by Dorothee Bär and Brigitte Zypries.
Political positions
Brandl has in the past voted in favor of German participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions as well as in United Nations-mandated European Union peacekeeping missions on the African continent, such as in Somalia – both Operation Atalanta and EUTM Somalia – (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016), Darfur/Sudan (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), South Sudan (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), Mali (2013, 2014 and 2015), the Central African Republic (2014) and Liberia (2015).
Other activities
- Bundesverband eMobilität (BEM), Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
- Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik (GSP), Vice President
- Federal Agency for Civic Education, Member of the Board of Trustees (2009–2013)
References
- ↑ Brandl setzt sich deutlich durch, Augsburger Allgemeine, 23 September 2013
- ↑ Staff: Reinhard Brandl Decision Sciences & Systems (DSS), Department of Informatics (I18), Technical University of Munich.
- Profile at the Bundestag website (German)