What organization did Karl-Heinz Brunner join in 2014?
Karl-Heinz Brunner Karl-Heinz Brunner ( born 14 March 1953 ) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) . He was elected a member of the German parliament ( Bundestag ) in the federal election of 2013 . Life . Brunner was born in Munich . After finishing school , he studied business administration , law administration , and management in Reutlingen , Munich , Starnberg and Bratislava . He worked as a legal counselor from 2005 – 2013 and as an executive shareholder of the Illertisser Sonnenschein GmbH & Co . KG . He is a coeditor of the political magazine “Berliner Republik” and serves as chairman of the “Freundeskreis Illertissen – Loket” . He is an honorary member of the Bavarian Red Cross since 1970 and the Workers’ Welfare Organisation . Brunner is married and has two adult children . Since 2011 he is a lecturer for “Public Private Partnerships” at the University of Applied Sciences Biberach . In September 2020 , Brunner came out as gay . According to him , he and his partner have been living in Berlin since 2019 despite Brunner still being married to his wife . Political career . Brunner joined the SPD in 1982 . He is engaged with local politics since 1985 . He was mayor of Illertissen from 1990 to 2002 and is a member of the county counsel of Neu-Ulm since 1996 . He ran for the constituency seat of Neu-Ulm / Günzburg in 2009 and 2013 . In 2013 he obtained a seat via the Bavarian SPD party list . Member of the German Bundestag , 2013–present . Brunner has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 federal elections . He has since been serving on the Defence Committee , the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection , as well as an on the Subcommittee on Disarmament , Arms Control and Non-Proliferation . On the Defence Committee , Brunner serves as the rapporteur of his parliamentary group for the German Air Force . In his capacity as member of the committee , he has traveled extensively to visit Bundeswehr troops on their missions abroad , including the Resolute Support Mission forces at Camp Marmal in Mazar-i-Sharif , Afghanistan ( 2018 ) . He is also spokesman for defense of the Bundestag group of the SPD parliamentarians from Bavaria . On the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection , Brunner is his parliamentary groups rapporteur for bankruptcy law and LGBT rights . In addition to his committee assignments , he serves as vice-chairman of the German-Austrian Parliamentary Friendship Group . Within his parliamentary group , Brunner belongs to the more centrist Seeheim Circle . He is also a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and the Czech Social Democratic Party . As a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly , Brunner joined the election observation mission for the 25 May 2014 early presidential election in Ukraine during the conflict in Donbass . While in Ukraine , he also met with representatives of the local LGBT community . In the 2019 SPD leadership election , Brunner qualified as one of the candidates for the position of the party’s chairman , but withdrew from the election on September 16th because he wanted to enable a clearer electoral decision for his fellow party members . Though Brunner had previously said he would not be running for a seat in the Bundestag for a third time , he announced that he will do so for the 2021 German federal election . Other activities . - Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation , Member of the Board of Trustees ( since 2019 ) - Deutsche Härtefallstiftung , Member of the Board of Trustees - German Military Reserve Association , Vice-President - Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD ) , Member - Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ ) , Member - German Association for Prevention of Road Accidents ( DVW ) , Member - Society for German Shepherd Dogs , Member External links . - homepage of Karl-Heinz Brunner in German