Heinz-Joachim Barchmann

Barchmann has been a member of the SDP since 1979. He has also been a member of the SPD-Bezirksvorstand Braunschweig since 2007.

In the 2009 German federal election, he ran in the Election District Helmstedt – Wolfsburg with a direct mandate. With 34.6% of the first preference votes he obtained second place, but was able to obtain the eleventh place on the Lower Saxon Landesliste and entry into the Bundestag.^[1] In the Bundestag, he is a member of the "Committee on the Affairs of the European Union" as well as a deputy in the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs. In the Bundestagswahl 2013 he ran again in the Helmstedt-Wolfsburg electoral district retained his membership in the Bundestag.

Barchmann is a member of the German Bundestag European Union Parliamentary Group (Europa-Union Parliamentariergruppe Deutscher Bundestag) and the Parliamentary Association for the Mediterranean (PV-UfM). He has been a trade unionist since 1971, first at the Gewerkschaft Handel, Banken und Versicherungen (HBV) (now part of ver.di). He is a member of the club "Mach meinen Kumpel nicht an!" ("Don't drive my buddy crazy!"), a supporting member of the UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe, voluntary chairman of Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) district association in Helmstedt, deputy chairman of the AWO district association Braunschweig, and also non-executive director of the AWO seniors and Pflege Elm-Lappwald gGmbH.