Joachim Stünker (born 29 March 1948 in Langwedel) is a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2009, where he was a legal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group 2002 to 2009.
After graduating from the Gymnasium am Wall in Verden/Aller in 1967, Stünker studied law at the Free University of Berlin and the Georg August University of Göttingen, which he completed in 1973 with the first state law examination.
[2] Stünker was also a member of the Bundestag's Parliamentary Oversight Panel, which monitors the work of the intelligence services.
In the 2009 Bundestag election, he achieved a result of 36.6%, narrowly losing out to his rival Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU) by less than 0.5 percentage points.