Stefan Heck
Stefan Heck (born 18 August 1982 in Marburg) is a German politician for the CDU and since 2021 has been a member of the 20th German Bundestag, the federal diet. He was already a member of the 18th German Bundestag from 2013 to 2017. From January 2019 to October 2021, Heck was Secretary of state in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and Sports. Life and career
Heck was born 1982 in the West German city of Marburg and studied law to become a lawyer. After graduating from the St. Johann Amöneburg Collegiate School in 2002, Heck completed his military service and subsequent training as a reserve officer. From 2003 to 2007, he studied law in Marburg and Kraków, graduating in 2007 with the first state law examination and subsequently working as a research assistant to Steffen Detterbeck at the Institute for Public Law at the University of Marburg until 2013. From 2011 to 2012, he was a legal trainee in Frankfurt, Marburg and Speyer. In 2011, he also returned to Kraków and completed an LL.M. degree there. In 2012, he graduated from Marburg with a dissertation on Mandate and Transparency. Display and Publication of Extra-Parliamentary Professional Activities of Members of the German Bundestag. In 2013, he passed the second state law examination and worked as an attorney at the international law firm Graf von Westphalen in Frankfurt am Main from March. After leaving the German Bundestag, Stefan Heck became managing director of the collecting society VG Media in 2017. Heck was elected to the Bundestag in 2021. Politics
Heck has been a member of the municipal council of the town of Amöneburg since 2001 and its chairman since 2011. Since 2006, he has also represented the CDU in the district council in Marburg-Biedenkopf. In 2013, he was elected state chairman of the Junge Union Hessen and remained so until 2019. Having already run unsuccessfully in the 2009 Bundestag election in the Marburg Bundestag constituency, he entered the Bundestag in 2013 via 12th place on the CDU state list for Hesse. In the German Bundestag, he was a full member of the Committee on Election Scrutiny, Immunity and Rules of Procedure and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection. In the 2017 Bundestag election, he missed the entry into the Bundestag. According to the daily newspaper Die Welt, his departure was considered "internally as perhaps the most bitter loss" in the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In the 2021 Bundestag election, Heck was elected to the German Bundestag via position 7 on the Hessian CDU state list. In the course of this, he resigned as state secretary. He was replaced as state secretary by Stefan Sauer. Since December 2016, he has been a member of the CDU federal executive committee. Writings
 "Mandate and transparency : notification and publication of sideline activities of members of the Bundestag." Frankfurt, M.: PL Acad. Research 2014 (Schriften zum deutschen und europäischen öffentlichen Recht 27) ISBN 978-3-631-63788-3 Accessed: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 2012. See also
German politics

References

External links

 Biography at the German Bundestag
 Website of Stefan Heck

Living people
1982 births
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025
21st-century German politicians
Members of the Bundestag for Hesse