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Volker Beck was born on 12 December, 1960 in German, is a German politician. Discover Volker Beck's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 12 December 1960
Birthday 12 December
Birthplace Stuttgart, West Germany (now Germany)
Nationality Germany

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2019

Beck served as spokesperson of the Green Party’s parliamentary group on legal affairs from 1994 to 2002, and as the Green Party Chief Whip in the Bundestag until 2013. He is spokesman of the Green Parliamentary Group for interior affairs and religion. In 2014 he was elected as chairman of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Alongside fellow MP Marieluise Beck, Volker Beck has been a vocal critic of Russia’s human rights situation. During his time as his parliamenary group’s spokesperson on human rights, he described the repeated prison sentences against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev as "disproportionate." He has often urged the German government and the European Union to make unequivocally clear to the Russian government that “the only Russia that can be a strategic partner is one that observes the rule of law.” He also called on Western investors to “put an end to their opportunistic silence.”

2017

Since November 2017 he is lecturer at the Center for Studies in Religious Sciences (CERES) at the Ruhr University Bochum.

2016

In June 2016, Beck was among 19 people detained by Turkish police central in Istanbul; the police had tried to disperse dozens of activists attempting to gather to mark the annual Istanbul Pride week after authorities banned their march.

In March 2016 Beck with 0.6 grams of a "suspicious substance" - media reports claimed it to have been crystal meth. With a fine of 7,000 EUR, preliminary proceedings have ended in April 2016. In the aftermath the Green Party decided for him to remain their spokesman for religious affairs and elected him to become spokesman for immigrant affairs. Spokeswoman for inner politics became Irene Mihalic instead.

2015

In 2015, following the agreement on a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, Beck criticized Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel for calling the country a “friend” and argued that “with its position on Israel and its human rights situation this Iranian regime cannot be Germany’s friend or strategic partner.”

2013

In 2013, Beck complained to R&S, the maker of condoms that were used in a far-right party's campaign against immigrant births. The company apologized and pledged to donate 10,000 condoms as well as the proceeds from the NPD order to a German foundation against right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism.

In 2013, Beck received major media attention, when a text written by him in 1988 promoting decriminalisation of sex with children, didn't turn out to be altered by the publisher, as he has claimed.

2011

In 2011, Beck visited the Sahrawi refugee camps to learn more about the humanitarian situation in the Western Sahara.

2009

Beck is openly gay. He lived in a long-term partnership with Jacques Teyssier until his death from cancer in Berlin on July 25, 2009. The couple had officially registered their partnership in 2008, after 16 years. Beck later entered into a relationship with architect Adrian Petkov, and after registering their partnership in the summer of 2017, the two married on the first day of legal same-sex marriage in Kreuzberg.

2008

Beck is also considered an important figure in securing compensation for victims of Nazism. Alongside Otto Graf Lambsdorff, he negotiated the $4.6 billion fund to compensate people enslaved by the Nazis and later served as one of the trustees of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". In 2008, he claimed that the German Parliament should raise more money to fight against right wing extremists. In 2015 he was awarded the Leo-Baeck-Award by the Central Council of Jews in Germany.

2007

In May 2007 he was arrested and put in a bus in front of Moscow City Hall by the police. He had wanted to hand over a petition signed by several Members of Parliament at Moscow City Hall. He was attacked and had eggs thrown at his head. As in 2007, his partner Jacques Teyssier tried to protect Mr. Beck from attacks by anti gay rights protesters.

2006

In 2006, Beck sponsored an anti-discrimination act in civil law and at the workplace, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnic origin, sex, sexual identity, religion, age, and disability.

On 27 May 2006, Beck was attacked and injured during a Gay Rights demonstration in Moscow, called Moscow Pride. His attack as well as his participation at the Moscow Pride Festival is featured in the documentary Moscow Pride '06.

Beck spoke in favor of continuing European Union sanctions on Uzbekistan, originally instated after the Uzbek government did not allow an international investigation of the Andijan massacre, on 17 October 2006.

On October 5, 2006 during GLBT history month Volker Beck was featured by Equality Forum.

2005

Equality Forum honoured Beck on May 1, 2005 as one of forty heroes for his extraordinary contributions toward LGBT equality. He is the only non-North American who was honored.

2003

In 2003, the German Bundestag decided, on Beck’s initiative, that the Federal Republic of Germany will erect a national memorial in the center of Berlin for homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi Party.

2002

On October 3, 2002, he was honored by then German President Johannes Rau on the advice of Jewish organisations (the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Jewish Claims Conference) as Knight of the Distinguished Service Cross. Beck also supported the Holocaust memorial and is a member of the Federal Foundation which erected the memorial.

2001

Between 2001 and 2004 he was chief negotiator for his party on the new immigration law coming into force in 2005.

In 2001 the INGLO [fr] honoured his work for the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in Germany with the Like-a-rock Award. In the same year the Berlin Gay Pride festival honored him with the Rainbow Award.

1989

On his last day in session the Bundestag decided to vote on the gay marriage bill which Beck struggled for since 1989. On the last day of his parliamentary career, he received a standing ovation following the approval of same-sex marriage bill in the German Bundestag. Beck was credited as one of the most influential and important legislators campaigning for this in the German federal Parliament.

1960

Volker Beck (born 12 December 1960) is a German politician. From 1994 to 2017, he was a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, for the Green Party. Beck served as the Green Party Speaker for Legal Affairs from 1994–2002, and as the Green Party Chief Whip in the Bundestag till 2013. He was spokesman of the Green Parliamentary Group for interior affairs and religion. In 2014 he was elected President of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group of the German Bundestag.