The Left MP André Hahn was elected to the Parliamentary Control Committee (PCGr) on Thursday in the second attempt.
426 deputies voted for Hahn, who was already a member of the secret committee in the last electoral term.
In the first ballot a month ago, he had missed the required number of 369 yes votes.
At that time, the AfD MP Joachim Wundrak had also failed, who ran a second time at the beginning of the month – and failed again.
Until the end of March, parliamentary control of the German intelligence services was still in the hands of politicians who were no longer represented in the Bundestag.
Patrick Sensburg (CDU) and Roman Reusch (AfD) were still members of the control committee, although they had left the Bundestag in September.
The reason for the enormous delay in the election was a conflict between the Greens and the SPD over the appointment of the presidency.
The SPD wanted to give Uli Grötsch the office, the Greens also claimed it.
They argued that the chancellor, interior minister and defense minister belong to the SPD, which is responsible for the technical supervision of the federal intelligence service, the protection of the constitution and the military counter-intelligence service.
Finally, a compromise was found: Green Konstantin von Notz will head the committee from now until March 2024, after which Grötsch will take over for the remainder of the legislative period.
The members also include Sebastian Hartmann, Ralf Stegner, Marja-Liisa Völlers from the SPD, the former chairman Roderich Kiesewetter and Christoph de Vries from the CDU, Konstantin Kuhle and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff from the FDP, from the Greens Notz also Irene Mihalic.
The traffic light coalition had decided to increase the number of members to 13.