In January 2014, Frank Tempel was elected unopposed as deputy chairman of the Bundestag's Interior Committee.

Frank Tempel was born on January 19, 1969, in Belzig in the GDR as the son of a teacher couple.

After working briefly as a car mechanic, he was able to begin training in 1993 in the intermediate police civil service in Thuringia.

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.

In 2001, he again became a member of the PDS and - due to his place of residence - was active in the Altenburger Land district association.

Furthermore, he is one of the initiators and a board member of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) Deutschland e. V., which advocates the legalization of drugs.

Since September 29, 2009, he was a successor to Bodo Ramelow as a member of the 16th German Bundestag, which, however, no longer held a session.

For the 2009 Bundestag election, Tempel received 29.3% of the first-past-the-post votes, which were not enough to win a direct mandate.