Jürgen Martens (born 3 August 1959) is a German lawyer and politician of the
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(FDP) who has been serving as a member of the
Bundestag from the state of
Saxony since 2017.
Early life and education
Martens was born in
Munich,
Bavaria. After completing his community service, he began studying law at the
University of Freiburg and completed his studies in 1986 with the 1st state examination. This was followed by a traineeship during which he worked, among other things, at the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg, the
State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg and in 1987/88 at the
Directorate-General for Agriculture/Fraud Prevention of the
European Commission in Brussels. After the 2nd state examination, Martens was admitted to the bar in
Lörrach in 1990.
Political career
Martens joined the FDP in 1976. He was a member of the
State Parliament of Saxony from
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
until
2014
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. From
2009
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to 2014 he was
State Minister of Justice in the government of Minister-President
Stanislaw Tillich of Saxony. In this capacity, he represented the state at the
European Committee of the Regions from 2010 until 2014.
Martens became a member of the Bundestag in the
2017 German federal election
Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter.
The Christian Democr ...
. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. He serves as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on legal affairs.
He is an alternate member of the Committee on the Election of Judges (''Wahlausschuss''), which is in charge of appointing judges to the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
In addition to his committee assignments, Martens is part of the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group. Since 2019, he has been a member of the German delegation to the
Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly.
References
External links
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Bundestag biography
1959 births
Living people
Politicians from Munich
Members of the Bundestag for Saxony
Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
Members of the Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party (Germany)
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