Johannes Steiniger (born 18 June 1987) is a German teacher and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013.
Johannes Steiniger | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Bad Dürkheim, West Germany (now Germany) | 18 June 1987
Political party | CDU |
Alma mater | University of Mannheim |
Steiniger joined the CDU in 2003. From 2010 until 2018, he served as chairman of the Young Union (JU) in Rhineland-Palatinate.[1]
Steiniger first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Neustadt – Speyer district.[2] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Sports Committee.[3][4] On the Finance Committee, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on climate protection. From 2020 until 2021, he was also involved in the parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard scandal.[5]
In June 2017, Steiniger voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.[6]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election, Steiniger publicly endorsed in 2020 Friedrich Merz to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party's chair.[7] For the 2021 national elections, he later endorsed Markus Söder as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.[8]
In 2014, Steiniger led efforts to remove fellow politician Sven Heibel from the board of the JU in Rhineland-Palatinate after Heibel causing national outrage by calling for the partial reintroduction of criminal liability for homosexuality.[9][10]