Ansgar Heveling

Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (born 3 July 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2009.^[1]

Ansgar Heveling
Heveling in 2012
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2009
Personal details
Born	Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (1972-07-03) 3 July 1972 (age 52) Rheydt, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	CDU
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Bonn German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer

Early career

From 2005 until 2009, Heveling served as deputy chief of staff to North Rhine-Westphalia's State Minister of Finance Helmut Linssen in the government of Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers.

Political career

Heveling first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing Krefeld.^[2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection;^[3] the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure; and the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2009 until 2013, he was also a member of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. He serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on copyright and criminal law.^[4]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Heveling was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit.

From 2018, Heveling was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.^[5] Since 2022, he has been a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired by Johannes Fechner and Nina Warken.^[6]

Other activities

• Deutsche Welle, Alternate Member of the Supervisory Board
• German Historical Museum (DHM), Member of the Board of Trustees^[7]
• Haus der Geschichte, Member of the Board of Trustees

Political positions

In June 2017, Heveling voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.^[8]