On August 25, the ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Thomas Hitschler, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense and Member of the German Bundestag (SPD).
For more information, please email events@acgusa.org.
Thomas Hitschler has been Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense since December 2021. He has been a Member of the German Bundestag (SPD) since 2013, representing the Südpfalz in Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the run up to the 2021 election, Mr. Hitschler was elected to lead the SPD’s campaign in Rhineland-Palatinate. During the negotiations to form the “traffic light” coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Free Democrats, he was a member of his party’s delegation in the working group on homeland security, civil rights, and consumer protection.
From 2014 to 2021, Mr. Hitschler served on the Bundestag’s Defense Committee, where he was the SPD parliamentary groups rapporteur on the infrastructure of the Bundeswehr. From 2018 to 2021, he was also a member of the Committee on Home Affairs. In 2020, he joined the Parliamentary Oversight Panel (PKGr), which provides parliamentary oversight of Germany’s intelligence services BND, BvF, and MAD. In addition to his committee assignments, Mr. Hitschler has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019.
Mr. Hitschler began his career in local politics, serving as a senior staff member to the Mayor of Landau. He studied Political Science, Public Law, and History in Mannheim and Würzburg.