Jan-Marco Luczak (born 2 October 1975) is a German lawyer and a politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German

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since 2009, representing the

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constituency until 2021, and as a party list member since.

Early life and career

Luczak was born in

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on 2 October 1975. He attended the secondary school Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium in Tempelhof and passed his

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in 1995, after which he served the general conscription in the

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. Moreover, Luczak began to study law at the

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. After his first Staatsexamen, Luczak worked for an international law firm. On a scholarship program of the

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, he received the doctoral degree,

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, at

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. His dissertation ('; translated: ''The European economic constitution as the legitimated element of European Integration'') was supervised by

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, a former German Minister of Defence. He passed the second Staatsexamen in 2008. Since 2008, Luczak has been working as a lawyer for law firm Hengeler Mueller in Berlin.

Political career

Since 1998, Luczak has been a member of the

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(CDU). He held several different offices, including treasurer and regional chairman of the youth organization " Young Union" of the Christian Democrats. Furthermore, Luczak has been elected for chairman of the local CDU in Berlin-Lichtenrade in 2006. He has been the deputy chairman of the regional CDU in district Tempelhof-Schöneberg since 2007.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2009–present

In the 2009 federal elections, Luczak ran for the direct Membership of Parliament (MP) in his electoral district Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin. He won his electoral district with 32,4% (54.925 votes) of direct votes after 15 years for the CDU. In the elections of 2013 he defended his mandate with 35% (60.926 votes). In parliament, Luczak served as a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs (2013–2021), the Sub-Committee on European Law (2013–2017) and as an alternate member of the Committee on Internal Affairs (2013–2021), where the majority of his work focused on legal affairs and economic policy. From 2014 until 2017, he was the deputy chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs. He also served on the Committee on the Election of Judges (''Wahlausschuss''), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Since the

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, he has been serving on the Committee on Building, Housing, Urban Development and Local Government. He is also his parliamentary group's spokesperson on building, housing, urban development and local government. Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Luczak led the group of CDU parliamentarians from Berlin from 2018 until 2021. In addition to his committee assignments, Luczak is a member of the German Parliamentary Society. He was also a member of the German-French, the German-Polish and the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Groups before becoming deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Andes States (

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) in 2018. Within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, he has been leading the group of CDU parliamentarians from Berlin since 2018. In the negotiations to form a

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under the leadership of

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Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Luczak was part of the working group on urban development, led by

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and

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. In the negotiations to form a

between the CDU and the

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(SPD) under the leadership of

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following Berlin’s 2023 state elections, Luczak was part of his party’s delegation to the working group on internal and legal affairs.

Other activities

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References

External links

Official website
(in German)

(in German)

(in German) {{DEFAULTSORT:Luczak, Jan-Marco 1975 births Living people 21st-century German lawyers Free University of Berlin alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Members of the Bundestag for Berlin Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Jurists from Berlin