Axel Voss

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Axel Voss (born 7 April 1963, Hamelin) is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 and became coordinator of the European People's Party group in the Committee on Legal Affairs in 2017. His parliamentary work focuses on digital and legal topics. In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Voss has also been working as a lawyer with Bietmann, a law firm in Cologne, since 2021. Voss was born in Hamelin. He is Evangelical-Lutheran, married and has two daughters. From 1983 to 1990, he studied law at the University of Trier, LMU Munich, and the University of Freiburg, thereby specialized in European and international law, made a language stay in Paris and eventually passed the first Staatsexamen in 1990. After assisting the UN Department of Technical Cooperation for Development in New York and a traineeship at the Supreme Provincial Court of Appeal in Koblenz, he finished his second Staatsexamen in 1994 and started to work as a lawyer. Later that year, Voss became the Citizens' adviser of the European Commission at the regional Commission Representation in Bonn. From 2000 to 2008, he taught European affairs at the RheinAhrCampus in Remagen of the University of Applied Sciences in Koblenz. Voss joined the German CDU in 1996 and chaired the Bonn affiliation from 2004 to 2009.