Citizenship German Name Clemens Binninger Occupation Politician | Political party CDU Nationality Germany Role German Politician | |
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Born 24 April 1962 (age 61)
Bonndorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, West Germany
(now Germany) ( 1962-04-24 ) Alma mater Hochschule fur Polizei Baden-Wurttemberg (HfPolBW)
Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei (DHPOL) Party Christian Democratic Union of Germany Similar People Eva Hogl, Patrick Ernst Sensburg, Elmar Thevesen, Bernd Vohringer | ||
Nsu clemens binninger zum untersuchungsausschuss am 11 11 2015
Clemens Binninger (born 24 April 1962 in Bonndorf, Baden-Württemberg) is a German politician and member of the CDU (conservative party). Binninger was a member of the Bundestag from 2002 until 2017.
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- Nsu clemens binninger zum untersuchungsausschuss am 11 11 2015
- Bundestag interview mit petra pau clemens binninger am 20 02 2014
- Political career
- Political positions
- Other activities
- References
Bundestag interview mit petra pau clemens binninger am 20 02 2014
Political career
Binninger was first elected in the 2002 elections and then re-elected in 2005, 2009 and 2013, representing the electoral district of Böblingen. Before becoming member of the German parliament, he used to work in police services and also as head of division in the department of the interior of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Binninger was a full member of the Committee of Internal Affairs and deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Control Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, BfV and MAD. In April 2014, he briefly served as head of the German Parliamentary Committee investigating the NSA spying scandal but stepped down after six days. He is also a member of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.
In addition, Binninger is a member of the International Police Association (IPA) and the German-American-center/James F. Byrnes Institute Stuttgart. He was rewarded for special accomplishments in constitutional law.
In September 2016, Binninger announced that he would not stand in the 2017 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.
Political positions
When German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble announced plans in 2008 to set up a central communications monitoring agency in Cologne for use by the police and intelligence agencies, modeled after the US's NSA and the UK's GCHQ, Binninger publicly expressed his support for the proposal, calling it "an ideal concentration of know-how." In late 2016, Binninger was one of the driving forces behind a long-delayed reform package for Germany's BND, allowing for interception of communications of foreign entities and individuals on German soil and abroad which pass through the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Frankfurt.
In April 2014, the Left Party and the Greens sought to petition for a subpoena to Edward Snowden in the very first session of the German Parliamentary Committee investigating the NSA spying scandal, but Binninger's CDU/CSU parliamentary group rejected the move. Indeed, Binninger unexpectedly resigned in response, saying that he stepped down to protest opposition efforts to turn the committee into a "Snowden circus." In his statement, Binninger said that Snowden was not of particular interest as a witness.