Klaus-Dieter Gröhler
Klaus-Dieter Gröhler is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union and former public servant who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Berlin from 2013 until 2021. From 2011 until 2013, he worked as the city councillor responsible for building and planning in western Berlin's Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district.
Political career
Gröhler became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing the Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. Throughout his time in parliament, he served as a member of the Budget Committee. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budgets of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. He was also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.From 2019, Gröhler led a parliamentary inquiry into the 2016 Berlin truck attack.
He lost his seat at the 2021 German federal election to Berlin mayor Michael Müller.
Other activities
- Hertha BSC, Member