Background
Binding was born in Sandershausen.
Binding was born in Sandershausen.
After his apprenticeship as a heavycurrent 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 Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg. Following his Diplom Binding worked as a technician and from 1987 until 1998 as an Information Technology 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.
In 1965, Binding joined both the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Metal Industry Union (IGM).
From 1986 until 1994 he served as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany district association in Heidelberg. In 1989, he was elected to the city council and in 1994 he became chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany faction of Heidelberg until 2000.
He has since been serving on the Finance Committee. Within the Social Democratic Party of Germany parliamentary group, he was the deputy spokesman of the financial policy working group from 2002 until 2005 and again from 2009 until 2012.
He has been serving as the working group’s spokesman since 2012.
On the Budget Committee, Binding served as his parliamentary group"s rapporteur on the budgets of the Federal Constitutional Court (2005-2009), the Federal Ministry of Justice (2005-2019) and the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (2009-2013). From 2014 to 2015, Binding was part of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 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.
Eurosolar, Member
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In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel"s Christian Democrats (Christian Democratic Union together with the Bavarian Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union)) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany following the 2013 German elections, Binding was part of the Social Democratic Party of Germany delegation in the working group on banking regulation and the Eurozone, led by Herbert Reul and Martin Schulz.
Finance Committee]
Since the 1998 national elections, Binding has been a member of the German Bundestag (lower house of Parliament), representing Heidelberg. He has also been a member of the working group on municipal policy since 2005. Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Alternate Member of the Administrative Council
GIZ, Member of the Supervisory Board (2010-2012)
Association of German Foundations, Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board
Sparkasse Heidelberg, Member of the Supervisory Board (1989-2001).