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{{Short description|German politician (born 1950)}}
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'''Lothar Binding''' (born 1 April 1950) is a German [[politician]] of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] (SPD) who served as a member of the [[Bundestag]] from the [[1998 German federal election|1998 election]] until 2021.

== Early life ==
Binding was born in Sandershausen. After his apprenticeship as a heavy- current electrician (1965–1968) he graduated Hesse College (Abitur) in 1972. Following his national civil service as a nurse's helper he studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at the universities of [[Heidelberg]] and [[Tübingen]]. In 1981 he obtained a Diplom degree in mathematics and physics at [[University of Heidelberg|Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg]].

Following his Diplom Binding worked as a technician and from 1987 until 1998 as an IT specialist at the Computer Center of Heidelberg University where he was responsible for planning, creating and operating local networks and high speed networks for data processing.

Binding is married and has two sons.

== Political career ==
[[File:Lothar Binding.jpg|thumb|Lothar Binding and [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]]]]  
In 1965, Binding joined both the SPD and the [[IG Metall]]. From 1986 until 1994 he served as the chairman of the SPD district association in Heidelberg. In 1989, he was elected to the city council of Heidelberg and in 1994 he became chairman of the SPD group in the council until 2000.

From the [[1998 German federal election|1998 national elections]], Binding was a member of the German Bundestag (lower house of Parliament), representing [[Heidelberg (electoral district)|Heidelberg]]. Throughout his time in parliament, he served on the Finance Committee. Within the SPD parliamentary group, he was the deputy spokesman of the financial policy working group from 2002 until 2005 and again from 2009 until 2012; he served as the working group's spokesman from 2012. He was also a member of the working group on municipal policy from 2005 until 2021.

On the Budget Committee, Binding served as his parliamentary group's [[rapporteur]] on the budgets of the [[Federal Constitutional Court of Germany|Federal Constitutional Court]] (2005-2009), the [[Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection|Federal Ministry of Justice]]  (2005-2019) and the [[Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development]] (2009-2013).

In the negotiations to form a ''[[Grand coalition (Germany)|Grand Coalition]]'' of [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]] [[Angela Merkel]]'s Christian Democrats ([[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|CDU]] together with the Bavarian [[Christian Social Union of Bavaria|CSU]]) and the SPD following the [[2013 German federal election|2013 German elections]], Binding was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on banking regulation and the [[Eurozone]], led by [[Herbert Reul]] and [[Martin Schulz]].

From 2014 to 2015, Binding was part of the SPD parliamentary group's leadership under chairman [[Thomas Oppermann]].

In addition, Binding was the initiator of the bipartisan group resolution which laid the groundwork for the anti-smoking legislation in Germany including the federal legislation in 2007 and some German states' legislation in the following years.

In April 2020, Binding announced that he would not stand in the [[2021 German federal election|2021 federal elections]] but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.<ref>Michael Abschlag (April 4, 2020), [https://www.rnz.de/nachrichten/metropolregion_artikel,-heidelberg-spd-abgeordneter-lothar-binding-verlaesst-2021-den-bundestag-_arid,508035.html Heidelberg: SPD-Abgeordneter Lothar Binding verlässt 2021 den Bundestag] ''Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung''.</ref>

==Other activities==
===Government agencies===
* [[Federal Financial Supervisory Authority]] (BaFin), Alternate Member of the Administrative Council
* [[Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit|GIZ]], Member of the Supervisory Board (2010-2012)

===Corporate boards===
* Sparkasse Heidelberg, Member of the Supervisory Board (1989-2001)

===Non-profit organizations===
* Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2018)<ref>[https://www.spd-wirtschaftsforum.de/presse/bernd-westphal-wird-neuer-beirats-vorsitzender-beim-wirtschaftsforum-der-spd/ Bernd Westphal wird neuer Beirats-Vorsitzender beim Wirtschaftsforum der SPD] Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , press release of June 7, 2018.</ref>
* [[ver.di|German United Services Trade Union]] (ver.di), Member
* Association of German Foundations, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
* [[Eurosolar]], Member

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.lothar-binding.de/inhalt/aktuelles.html}} {{in lang|de}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090922232349/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete/bio/B/bindilo0.html Biography of German Bundestag]{{in lang|de}}

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