Alois Karl


Alois Karl is a German lawyer and politician from the Christian Social Union of Bavaria. He has been a member of the German Bundestag representing Amberg since 2005. He also was Mayor of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz from 1990 to 2005.

Political career

Karl has been a member of the Budget Committee and its Sub-Committee on European Affairs since 2005; in 2014, he became the sub-committee's deputy chairman. On the Budget Committee, he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Foreign Office. In addition, Karl serves as chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Baltic States and as member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Karl was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on transport and building policies; led by Hans-Peter Friedrich and Patrick Döring.
In July 2020, Karl announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Other activities

In June 2017, Karl voted against Germany's introduction of same-sex marriage.