The ACG will hold a Breakfast Briefing in Chicago with two members of the German Bundestag, Metin Hakverdi (SPD) and Thomas Silberhorn (CDU/CSU). The event will take place from 8:00am-9:30am (CDT) at The Chicago Club.
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Transatlantic Relations in a Super Election Year: Two Perspectives from Berlin
August 20 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am EDT
Metin Hakverdi joined the SPD in 2002 and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013. His reelection in Hamburg-Harburg in 2021 was resounding — with nearly 40 percent of the vote. He serves on the Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs and on the Finance Committee. He is the Chairman of the USA/North America Working Group within the SPD Parliamentary Group and a member of the German-American Parliamentary Friendship Group in the German Bundestag.
Before being elected to the Bundestag, Mr. Hakverdi was a member of the Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2008 to 2013, where he was on the Budget Committee and the Committee of Public Companies and Assets. He attended high school in Simi Valley, California, in 1985/86 and studied law at the Christian-Albrecht University in Kiel and at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. He became licensed to practice law in 2000.
Thomas Silberhorn has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. Since 2021 he has served as the Spokesman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group for Transatlantic Relations. Mr. Silberhorn was the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development from 2014 to 2018. From 2009 to 2013, he was the Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on the Legal Affairs Committee. He chaired the CSU regional group’s working group on foreign affairs, defense, Europe, economic cooperation and development, human rights and humanitarian aid from 2005 to 2013. He joined the CSU in 1987 and was on the Board of the CSU’s Junge Union from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Silberhorn is a lawyer. After his second state examination in 1994, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth. Then, in 2001, he took up work as a lawyer in Munich and Berlin.