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| Hansjörg Durz | |
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| Member of the Bundestag for Augsburg-Land | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-07-29) 29 July 1971 (age 53) Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Political party | Christian Social Union of Bavaria |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Website | http://www.hansjoerg-durz.de/ |
Hansjörg Durz is a German politician (CSU). He has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2013. Before that he served as mayor in the bavarian city of Neusäß.
Life and education
Hansjörg Durz was born in Augsburg and raised in Neusäß-Täfertingen. In 1991, he obtained the Abitur at Rhabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium St. Ottilien. After that he completed a vocational training as a bank clerk, before he studied business administration at Augsburg University. He founded an e-commerce business in 1999 and worked as managing director until he became mayor of Neusäß.
Political career
Durz joined the CSU in 1992. In 1996 he became a member of the city council of Neusäß and was elected deputy mayor of the city six years later. In 2008 he became mayor of Neusäß.
Since 2002, Durz has been a member of the country council Augsburg.
In 2013, Durz was elected to the German Bundestag as direct candidate of the constituency Augsburg-Land. He repeated this in the elections of 2017 and 2021.
In the 19th legislative session Durz served as deputy chairman to the committee on digital affairs and was a member of the committee on economic affairs. He was the spokesperson on digital affairs of the CSU in the Bundestag.
Durz was a member of the "Committee Competition Law 4.0" of the Federal Ministry on Economic Affairs, which made proposals for the adjustment of the European competition law to digital markets in 2019. Later, he took on responsibility for the tenth amendment of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), which was one of the initiatives to adopt the Digital Markets Act at EU level.
As one of the first politicians, Durz called for the implementation of legal research clauses in the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz, a predecessor of the Digital Services Act. With it researchers can get access to data held by big social media companies to understand the modi operandi and the impact of social media in the public sphere.
In the 20th legislative session, Durz has been a member of the committee on digital affairs and economic affairs. He holds the position as chairman of the CDU/CSU faction in the committee of economic affairs.
Furthermore Durz holds the position as Deputy regional group chairman of the CSU in the German Bundestag.
References
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Hansjörg Durz". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- "CSU wählt Hansjörg Durz zum Bundestagskandidaten - csu.de". 2013-10-02. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- "Hansjörg Durz | CSU-Landesgruppe". www.csu-landesgruppe.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- Klimaschutz, BMWK-Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und. "Kommission Wettbewerbsrecht 4.0". www.bmwk.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- "Das GWB-Digitalisierungsgesetz – ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zur Regulierung des Wettbewerbs auf digitalen Märkten?" (PDF). Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. January 2021.
- Zeitung, Süddeutsche (2021-01-22). "Gegen die Macht der großen Tech-Konzerne". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- "Fake News: Koalition will soziale Netzwerke zu Transparenz zwingen". www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
- "NetzDG: Koalition will soziale Netzwerke zu mehr Transparenz verpflichten". www.handelsblatt.com. Retrieved 2023-09-19.
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