Bernd Fabritius

Bernd Fabritius
File:Bernd Fabritius.jpg
Member of Parliament for Bavaria
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 October 2013
Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007
Preceded by	Volker Dürr
Federation of Expellees
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 November 2014
Preceded by	Erika Steinbach
Personal details
Born	(1965-05-14) 14 May 1965 Agnita, Romania
Political party	Christian Social Union
Religion	Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania

Bernd Fabritius (born 14 May 1965) is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).

Early life and education

Fabritius was born in Agnita, Sibiu County, Romania. Fabritius lives with his partner together.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2013–present

Fabritius was first elected to the German Bundestag in the 2013 federal elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, its Sub-Committee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policies, and on the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. On the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on discrimination.

Between 2014 and 2015, Fabritius was also a member of the Committee on Affairs of the European Union, where he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on relations with Ukraine and Romania. In 2015, he succeeded Peter Gauweiler as Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policies.

From from 2014 to mid-2015, Fabritius briefly served as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, where he sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and on the Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities.

Other activities

• Autohaus Michael Schmidt GmbH, Member of the Advisory Board
• Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees