Ansgar Guido Karl Johannes Heveling (born 3 July 1972) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as president of the Federal Court of Audit since 2026.[1]

From 2009 to 2026, Heveling served as a member of the Bundestag, representing the Krefeld I – Neuss II district.[2]

Early career

From 2005 until 2009, Heveling served as deputy chief of staff to North Rhine-Westphalia's State Minister of Finance Helmut Linssen (CDU) in the government of Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers (CDU, Kabinett Rüttgers).

Political career

Heveling first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election, representing Krefeld.[3] He ran for the Bundestag federal elections in 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 and 2025 and was elected every time in his constituency (de) near Neuss (North Rhine-Westphalia).

In parliament, Heveling was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection;[4] the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure; and the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. From 2009 until 2013, he was also a member of the Subcommittee on European Affairs. He serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on copyright and criminal law.[5]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Heveling was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit.

From 2018, Heveling was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany’s electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[6] In 2022, he was a member of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired by Johannes Fechner and Nina Warken.[7]

Heveling was Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee of the 18th German Bundestag (2015-2017).[8] He served as representative of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Culture Committee. In addition, he was part of the Enquete Commission on the Internet and Digital Society and was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag. In 2018, Heveling became legal advisor to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

In the 20th German Bundestag, Heveling was a full member of the Election Committee, the Election Review Committee, the Legal Affairs Committee and the Committee for Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure. He also was a deputy member of the Committee for Culture and Media.

Heveling is a member of the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland, which advocates for a federal Europe and the European unification process.[9]

Political positions

Heveling was one of 226 Members of the Bundestag who voted in June 2017 against the introduction of same-sex marriage in Germany.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rainer Leurs (24 March 2026), CDU-Chef im Rhein-Kreis Neuss: Ansgar Heveling soll Präsident des Bundesrechnungshofs werden Rheinische Post.
  2. ↑ "Ansgar Heveling | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ansgar Heveling". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "German Bundestag – Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Ulrike Thiele (31 January 2012), Ansgar Heveling: Ein CDU-Politiker zieht in den Netzkrieg Der Tagesspiegel.
  6. ↑ Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  7. ↑ Fechner und Warken leiten Kommission zur Reform des Wahlrechts Bundestag, press release of 7 April 2022.
  8. ↑ CV
  9. ↑ http://www.europa-union.de: Member list
  10. ↑ List
  11. ↑ bundestag.de: Eheschließung für Personen gleichen Geschlechts (393 voted yes, 226 no (225 of them CDU/CSU), 4 abstentions, 7 didn't vote)
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansgar_Heveling