Frank Tempel
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Frank Tempel | |
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| Member of the German Bundestag | |
| In office 2009–2017 | |
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| Born | January 19, 1969 Belzig, Germany |
| Political party | The Left |
| Children | 4 |
| Occupation | Political |
Frank Tempel (born January 19, 1969) is a German politician (Die Linke). He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2017, where he was the drug policy spokesman for the Bundestag parliamentary group from May 2010. In January 2014, Frank Tempel was elected unopposed as deputy chairman of the Bundestag's Interior Committee. He was the first politician from Die Linke party to hold this post. From 2017 to 2019, he was head of the Domestic Violence Coordination Office in Thuringia. Since 2020, he has been back at the criminal investigation department in Gera.
Frank Tempel was born on January 19, 1969, in Belzig in the GDR as the son of a teacher couple. After attending the "Hanno Günther" polytechnic high school, he completed a three-year vocational training program with a high school diploma to become an agricultural machinery fitter. In 1988, Tempel committed himself to a career as a professional officer in the border troops of the GDR. He began his officer studies at the officer college of the border troops of the GDR "Rosa Luxemburg" in Suhl, but did not finish this due to the events surrounding the political change in the GDR. Tempel received a job as a social worker from 1990 to 1991, during which he supervised a youth project of the FDJ in Suhl in the area of social work. He then worked as a professional driver dismantling border installations in Sonneberg. After working briefly as a car mechanic, he was able to begin training in 1993 in the intermediate police civil service in Thuringia. After this training, he transferred to the Meiningen Police School in December 1996 to complete a two-year course of study at a university of applied sciences, which he finished in December 1998 with a degree in administration (Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH) Fachbereich Polizei). In 1999, Tempel was appointed as a criminal investigator in the higher service.
Tempel has been active in the police union since 1995, including two years as state chairman of the GdP's Young People's Group in Thuringia.
After leaving the German Bundestag, he returned to police service in November 2017. Shortly thereafter, he was seconded by the Thuringian state government to the newly established Domestic Violence Coordination Office in his capacity as a police officer. After two years, he returned to his old assignment at the Gera Criminal Investigation Department.
Frank Tempel lives in Zehma in a partnership and is the father of four children.
