Marco Wanderwitz

Marco Wanderwitz
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2002
Personal details
Born (1975-10-10) 10 October 1975
Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
Nationality Germany
Political party CDU
Alma mater

Marco Wanderwitz (born 10 October 1975 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz)),[1] is a German politician (CDU). He is the speaker of cultural and media policy of the CDU/CSU parliamentary party in the German Bundestag.

Personal and professional life

After graduating from high school in 1994 Wanderwitz did his military service. In 1995 he completed studies of law at the Technical University of Dresden and afterwards in 2000 completed his studies at the University of Potsdam the first juristic state examination. After the legal clerkship in 2002 he passed the second state examination. Since May 2003 he has been a lawyer in Leipzig. Wanderwitz is married and has three children.[1]

Political career

Wanderwitz joined the Junge Union in 1990 and the CDU party in 1998. He is a Chairman of the CDU district department in Zwickau and he belongs to the board of the protestant working group in Chemnitz and Chemnitz district. He is a member of the local political association of Chemnitz-Mittweida-Zwickau.

Since 2004 Wanderwitz has been a part of the City Council of the major district town Hohenstein-Ernstthal.

Member of Parliament, 2002–present

Since the 2002 elections, Wanderwitz has been a member of the German Bundestag. Following his term as vice chairman of the Young Group within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2002 until 2005, he later served as the group's chairman from 2005 until 2014.

Wanderwitz always entered the German Bundestag as directly elected deputy. In the 2005 elections he reached 37.5 percent of primary votes. He was also a candidate from CDU party for the federal electoral district of Chemnitz Umland/Erzgebirge District II in 2009, when he reached 41.2% of the primary vote in the general election of the 2009.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, Wanderwitz was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on cultural and media affairs, led by Michael Kretschmer and Klaus Wowereit. From January 2014 he served as chairman of the CDU/CSU working group for culture and media and thereby a speaker of cultural and media policy of this group.[2] He was also a full member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, 2018–present

In the fourth government under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Wanderwitz has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under the leadership of Minister Horst Seehofer since 2018.

Other activities

Corporate boards

  • Sachsenring, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • Volksbank Mittweida, Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

  • Deutsche Welle, Member of the Broadcasting Committee
  • Federal Cultural Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees[3]
  • German Federal Film Board (FFA), Member of the Supervisory Board
  • German-Portuguese Society, Member of the Advisory Board

Political positions

In context of the European debt crisis, Wanderwitz emphasized in the interview “Give away your islands”, that Greece could privatize islands if the country can not follow its obligations.[4] In the summer of 2010 he suggested that citizens with unhealthy nutrition should be involved more in the financing of health insurance because this way they would consciously be aware of the cost of funds.[5] In February 2012 he called for higher social security contributions from childless citizens to allow reliefs for families with children.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Wanderwitz, Marco (2015). "Marco Wanderwitz - Vita" (in German). Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pressemitteilung der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion" (in German). 13 January 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Board of Trustees Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
  4. ↑ "Gebt her eure Inseln". derStandard.at (in German). 4 March 2010. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Liebe Dicke". Berliner Zeitung (in German). 24 July 2010. p. 4.
  6. ↑ dpa (13 February 2012). "Unions-Politiker planen höhere Abgaben für Kinderlose". Handelsblatt (in German). Retrieved 25 February 2015.
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