Dirk Fischer

football official

In November 2007, he became president of the Hamburg Football Association (HFV) and a member of the board of the German Football Association (DFB). At the end of August 2021, Fischer announced his resignation as HFV chairman to facilitate a rejuvenation of the association's leadership. At the end of October 2021, Fischer was appointed honorary president of the HFV.

Member of Parliament

Fischer first won a seat in the Hamburg Parliament through the 1970 Hamburg state elections , which he held for three legislative periods until he resigned his mandate on February 5, 1981.

From 1980 to 2017, he was a member of the German Bundestag . There, from 1989 to 2014, he chaired the parliamentary group's working group on transport (from 1998 to 2005: transport, construction and housing; since 2005: transport, construction and urban development, reconstruction in eastern Germany), thus serving as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's spokesperson on transport policy. During the 18th legislative period, he was a full member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and a substitute member of the Committee on Sport . From 1994 to 2014, he also chaired the Hamburg regional group within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

Dirk Fischer was directly elected to the Bundestag in 1987, 1990, 1994, 2009, and 2013, representing the Hamburg-North constituency . Otherwise, he always entered the Bundestag via the Hamburg state list . He was vice-captain of FC Bundestag , for whom he played 528 matches.