Josip Juratovic

Josip Juratovic
Josip Juratovic in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
18 October 2005
Personal details
Born (1959-01-15) 15 January 1959
Koprivnica, SFR Yugoslavia (present day Croatia)
PartySPD

Josip Juratovic (born 15 January 1959) is a German-Croatian auto mechanic, trade unionist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2005 to 2025.[1]

Political career

Juratovic was first elected to the Bundestag in the 2005 German federal election, representing Heilbronn.[2] From 2005 to 2013, he served on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[3] In this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on relations with South-Eastern Europe.

In addition to his committee work, Juratovic chairs the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe and co-chairs the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Northern Adriatic States. He has been a substitute member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) 2014-2025, where he has served on the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 2014) and the Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (2015-2018).[4]

In 2024 he announced that he would not seek re-election to the Bundestag. [5]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ "Josip Juratovic | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Josip Juratovic, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 27 June 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Josip Juratovic Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
  5. ↑ "SPD-Kreisverbände Heilbronn-Stadt und Heilbronn-Land nominieren den Eppinger Jens Schäfer als Bundestagskandidaten". spd-beilstein.de. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
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