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{{short description|German politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
 
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hans-Joachim Fuchtel
| office = Member of the [[Bundestag]]
| image = File:WLP14-ri-0887- Hans-Joachim Fuchtel (CDU).jpg
| caption = Hans-Joachim Fuchtel in 2014
| term_start = [[1987 German federal election|1987]]
| term_end = [[2021 German federal election|2021]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|19531952|2|13}}
| birth_place = [[Sulz am Neckar]], [[West Germany]]<br />{{small|(now Germany)}}
| party = [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]]
| nationality = German
| children = 4
| alma_mater = [[University of Tübingen]]
| occupation =
}}
'''Hans-Joachim Fuchtel''' (born 13 February 19531952) is a German politician.lawyer Bornand inpolitician [[Sulz am Neckar]], [[Baden-Württemberg]], he representsof the [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDUChristian Democratic Union]]. Hans-Joachim Fuchtel(CDU) haswho served as a member of the [[Bundestag]] from the state of [[Baden-Württemberg]] sincefrom 1987 until 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/hans-joachim-fuchtel|title=Hans-Joachim Fuchtel {{!}} Abgeordnetenwatch|website=www.abgeordnetenwatch.de|language=de|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> From 2018 to 2021 he also served as Parliamentary State Secretary for Food and Agriculture in the [[Fourth Merkel cabinet|government]] of [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Angela Merkel]].
 
== LifePolitical career ==
HeFuchtel first became a member of the bundestagBundestag afterin the [[1987 German federal election]], representing the [[Calw (electoral district)|Calw]] district.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cducsu.de/abgeordnete/hans-joachim-fuchtel|title=Hans-Joachim Fuchtel|website=CDU/CSU-Fraktion|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> HeFor isseveral Parliamentaryterms, Statehe Secretaryserved foron Foodthe Budget Committee (1994-2009) and Agriculturethe Audit Committee (2002-2009). In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's [[rapporteur]] on the [[Federal budget of Germany|annual budget]] of the [[Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs]], among others. In addition to his committee assignments, he was part of the German delegation to the [[Inter-Parliamentary Union]] (IPU) from 1991 until 2009.
 
In Chancellor Angela Merkel's [[Second Merkel cabinet|second]] [[coalition government]] from 2009 to 2013, Fuchtel served (alongside [[Ralf Brauksiepe]]) as one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs under minister [[Ursula von der Leyen]]. In addition to this role, he was appointed as the Chancellor's Personal Envoy to the German-Greek Assembly (DGV) in 2011.<ref>Julia Amalia Heyer (3 September 2012), [https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-87997168.html Ganz, ganz unten] ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.</ref> In the negotiations to form a ''[[Grand coalition (Germany)|Grand Coalition]]'' of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian [[Christian Social Union of Bavaria|CSU]]) and the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrats]] (SPD) following the [[2013 German federal election|2013 federal elections]], he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on labor policy, led by von der Leyen and [[Andrea Nahles]].
 
In Merkel's [[Third Merkel cabinet|third]] cabinet from 2013 to 2017, Fuchtel served (alongside [[Thomas Silberhorn]] as one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries at the [[Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development]] under minister [[Gerd Müller (politician)|Gerd Müller]]. In the negotiations to form a [[coalition government]] following the [[2017 German federal election|2017 federal elections]], he was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and [[Sigmar Gabriel]].
 
In May 2020, Fuchtel announced that he would not stand in the [[2021 German federal election|2021 federal elections]] but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.<ref>Roland Weisenburger (12 May 2020), [https://bnn.de/nachrichten/politik/hans-joachim-fuchtel-tritt-nicht-mehr-an-merkels-schweizer-taschenmesser-verlaesst-den-bundestag Hans-Joachim Fuchtel tritt nicht mehr an: Merkels Schweizer Taschenmesser verlässt den Bundestag] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614104557/https://bnn.de/nachrichten/politik/hans-joachim-fuchtel-tritt-nicht-mehr-an-merkels-schweizer-taschenmesser-verlaesst-den-bundestag |date=14 June 2020 }} ''[[Badische Neueste Nachrichten]]''.</ref>
 
== Other activities ==
* [[Asian Development Bank]] (ADB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013-2018)<ref>[https://www.adb.org/annual-meeting/2016/welcome-message 2016 Annual Meeting: Welcome from Hans-Joachim Fuchtel, ADB Governor for Germany] [[Asian Development Bank]] (ADB).</ref>
* [[Inter-American Development Bank|Inter-American Investment Corporation]] (IIC), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013-2018)
* [[German Investment Corporation]] (DEG), Ex-Officio Chairman of the supervisory board (2013-2018)
 
== Political positions ==
In June 2017, Fuchtel voted against Germany's introduction of [[Recognition of same-sex unions in Germany|same-sex marriage]].<ref>[https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article166099805/Diese-Unionsabgeordneten-stimmten-fuer-die-Ehe-fuer-alle.html Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle] ''[[Die Welt]]'', 30 June 2017.</ref>
 
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