Dieter Janecek
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1976-05-25) 25 May 1976 (age 47)
Pirmasens, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Nationality Germany
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens

Dieter Gerald Janecek (born 25 May 1976) is a German politician of the Green Party (Alliance 90/The Greens) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013. From 2008 to 2014 Janecek was chairman of the Bavarian Green Party.

In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Janecek has been serving as the Coordinator for the Maritime Industry and Tourism at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action since 2023.[1]

Early life and education

Janecek studied political science at the Bavarian School of Public Policy (HfP) in Munich.

Political career

Career in state politics

In 2008, Janecek achieved via a verdict through the European Court of Justice that citizens under the impact of particulate pollution, could urge responsible authorities to reduce the pollution exceeding the legal threshold. As a consequence, Munich was forced to change its status quo and to establish a low-emission zone.[2]

Janecek served as co-chair of the Green Party in Bavaria from 2008 until 2014, alongside Theresa Schopper (2008–2013) and Sigi Hagl (2013–2014); at the time, he was the youngest person to ever hold that position. He is also the founder of the nonpartisan transatlantic thinktank Die Transformateure.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2013-present

Since the federal elections of 2013, Janecek was the Green Party candidate of the Munich constituency 221 München-West/Mitte. He has always received his seat in the Bundestag through his position on the Green electoral list.

In parliament, Janecek has been a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs (since 2013) as well as of the Committee on the Digital Agenda (2013–2021).[3] He has served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on economic policy (2013–2017,[4] 2021–2023),[5] the digital economy (2018–present)[6] and industrial policy (since 2019).[7] Janecek also serves as a member of the Study Commission of the Bundestag on "Artificial Intelligence – Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential".[8]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democrats (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Janecek was part of his party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired by Thomas Losse-Müller, Katharina Fegebank and Lydia Hüskens.[9]

Other activities

Political positions

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Janeck joined forces with five other parliamentarians – Gyde Jensen, Konstantin Kuhle, Andrew Ullmann, Kordula Schulz-Asche and Paula Piechotta – on a cross-party initiative in 2022 to support legislation that would require all those who have not had yet been vaccinated to receive counselling before later requiring all adults above 50 years to be vaccinated.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ Julian Olk (12 January 2023), Dieter Janecek soll Habecks neuer Beauftragter für maritime Wirtschaft und Tourismus werden Handelsblatt.
  2. ^ "Dieter Janecek v. Freistaat Bayern". www.ecolex.org. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Dieter Janecek". hub.berlin 2017. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  4. ^ Andreas Rinke and Andrea Shalal (January 29, 2017), Merkel says fight against terrorism no excuse for U.S. entry ban Reuters.
  5. ^ Silke Kersting and Julian Olk (24 January 2023), Sandra Detzer ist neue wirtschaftspolitische Sprecherin der Grünen Handelsblatt.
  6. ^ Gremienbesetzungen der Grünen Bundestagsfraktion Green Party Parliamentary Group, press release of April 17, 2018.
  7. ^ Gremienbesetzungen der Grünen Bundestagsfraktion Green Party Parliamentary Group, press release of October 15, 2019.
  8. ^ Study Commission "Artificial Intelligence Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential“
  9. ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (October 21, 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  10. ^ Advisory Board Energy and Climate Policy and Innovation Council (EPICO).
  11. ^ Board of Trustees Archived 9 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG).
  12. ^ Advisory Board Bundesverband der Unternehmervereinigungen (BUV).
  13. ^ Advisory Board Blockchain Bundesverband.
  14. ^ Experts Energy Watch Group (EWG).
  15. ^ Board of Trustees German-Israeli Business Association.
  16. ^ Norbert Vollmann (February 10, 2015), Janecek Mitglied im Kuratorium Main-Post.
  17. ^ Severin Weiland (25 January 2022), Weiterer Gruppenantrag im Bundestag: Mehrere Abgeordnete von FDP und Grünen wollen Impfpflicht ab 50 Jahren Der Spiegel.
  18. ^ Riham Alkousaa (26 January 2022), German lawmakers debate compulsory COVID shots as infections surge Reuters.
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