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Michael Grosse-Brömer (born 12 October 1960) is a German lawyer and
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of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been selfserving as a member of the
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since 2002.


Early life and education

Grosse-Brömer is a
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and
civil law notary Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of contentious jurisdiction, noncontentious private law, private civil law (legal system), civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and gi ...
, specializing in building and architects law.


Political career

Grosse-Brömer joined the CDU in 1982. Grosse-Brömer was first elected to the Bundestag in the
2002 elections The following elections occurred in the year 2002. * 2002 Bahraini parliamentary election * 2002 Comorian presidential election * 2002 East Timorese presidential election * 2002 Fijian municipal election * 2002 Hong Kong Chief Executive election * ...
. He first served as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and as chairman of its Sub-Committee on European Law. Between 2003 and 2004, he was one of 32 members of the Commission on the modernization of the federal state, which had been established to reform the division of powers between federal and state authorities in Germany. Within the
CDU/CSU CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties ( ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian democratic and conservative political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social U ...
parliamentary group, Grosse-Brömer joined the leadership committee in 2006. Following the 2009 federal elections, Grosse-Brömer assumed leadership of the Christian Democrats from
Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...
. In 2010 he became justicar of the parliamentary group of the CDU; before then he had served as the groups' spokesperson on legal affairs. In 2012 he succeeded
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as First Secretary of the parliamentary group, in this position assisting the parliamentary group's chairman
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. In addition, he is a member of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2009, Grosse-Brömer was also a member of the parliament's Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigning committee chairpersons based on party representation. Since 2014, he has been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany The Federal Constitutional Court ( ; abbreviated: ) is the supreme court, supreme constitutional court for the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, Basic Law ...
. He is also a member of the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the other Highest Courts of Justice, namely the
Federal Court of Justice The Federal Court of Justice ( , ) is the highest court of Private law, civil and Criminal law, criminal jurisdiction in Germany. Its primary responsibility is the final appellate review of decisions by lower courts for errors of law. While, le ...
(BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the
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(BFH), the
Federal Labour Court The Federal Labour Court ( , BAG ) is the court of the last resort for cases of labour law in Germany, both for individual labour law (mostly concerning contracts of employment) and collective labour law (e.g. cases concerning strikes and colle ...
(BAG), and the
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(BSG). Following the 2013 federal elections, Grosse-Brömer was part of the CDU/CSU team in the negotiations with the SPD on a coalition agreement. In the negotiations to form a
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with the
Christian Social Union in Bavaria The Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( German: , CSU) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity, the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart, the Christian Democra ...
(CSU), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the
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following the 2017 national elections, he was part of the 19-member delegation of the CDU. Following his party's defeat in the 2021 elections, Grosse-Brömer announced his candidacy as
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; however, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group eventually nominated
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for the position. Since then, he has been serving as chair of the Committee on Economic Affairs. In April 2024, Grosse-Brömer announced that he would not stand in the 2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.


Political views


On social policy

Following a 2013 decision by the
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, which ruled that gays and lesbians should be allowed to adopt children already adopted by their partners, Grosse-Brömer told German daily ''
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'' that as a result of the "clear tendency in the decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court, we should move as quickly as possible to implement the necessary constitutional right of equality." Grosse-Brömer later devised a compromise on legally binding rules to ensure more women sit on corporate boards after some of his parliamentary group's lawmakers, led by Labor Minister
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, threatened to vote for the opposition-sponsored proposal to reserve as many as 40 percent of board seats for women. Under the agreement, at least 30 percent of the supervisory board of publicly traded companies must be reserved for women from 2020.


On economic policy

In a 2013 German debate about moving towards tighter regulation of
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, Grosse-Brömer expressed his hope that transparency and shareholder scrutiny would be enough to put a stop to pay excesses and rejected a legal cap on payouts. Speaking on plans to create a
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was a proposed trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States, with the aim of promoting trade and multilateral economic growth. According to Karel De Gucht, Euro ...
in 2014, he told the ''
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'' that " e biggest advantage is that when the EU and the US make this deal, it will include standards which can be applied worldwide."


On foreign policy

In the debate on
international sanctions during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine International sanctions have been imposed against Russia and Crimea during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and international organisations following the Annexati ...
, Grosse-Brömer supported tighter measures, saying said it was "right" to push for more sanctions on Russia and that "sanctions that have been held out must also be implemented." On Ukraine's president
Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician and Oligarchy, oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Minister ...
's 2014 plan to hold a referendum on his country joining
NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO ; , OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental organization, intergovernmental Transnationalism, transnational military alliance of 32 Member states of NATO, member s ...
, Grosse-Brömer swiftly commented: "NATO membership for Ukraine isn't on the agenda at this point."


Other activities

Grosse-Brömer sits on the advisory board of Wuppertal-based insurer Barmenia Versicherungen.Michael Grosse-Brömer
Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet (assembly), Diet") is the lower house of the Germany, German Federalism in Germany, federal parliament. It is the only constitutional body of the federation directly elected by the German people. The Bundestag wa ...
.


See also

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List of German Christian Democratic Union politicians A list of notable members of the Christian Democratic Union. __NOTOC__ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A * Manfred Abelein * Wilhelm Abeln * Michael von Abercron * Annemarie Ackermann * Ulrich Ada ...


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Personal website
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