Marcus Weinberg

Marcus Weinberg
Marcus Weinberg (2014)
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1967-06-04) 4 June 1967
Hamburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
Nationality Germany
Political party CDU
Children 1
Alma mater University of Hamburg
Occupation Politician

Marcus Weinberg (born 4 Juni 1967 in Hamburg) is a German politician. He is a member of the CDU party.

Early life and career

After high school, Weinberg served as a Bundeswehr soldier from 1987 to 1991. Afterwards he studied History at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2007 Weinberg was a teacher in Wilhelmsburg.[1]

Political career

Weinberg was a member of Hamburgische Bürgerschaft, the parliament of Hamburg, from 2001 to 2005. From 2011 to 2015 he also served as chairman of CDU Hamburg. He resigned from that position after his party scored its lowest result in history in the 2015 state elections.[2]

Weinberg has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the validation of foreign studies and degrees. Since 2009, he has been serving on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats following the 2013 federal elections, Weinberg was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and Doris Ahnen.

Other activities

  • Bundesstiftung Mutter und Kind, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees[3]
  • Jürgen Echternach Foundation, Chairman of the Board (since 2015)
  • Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB), Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2006)
  • Frischluft e.V., Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2005)

Personal life

Weinberg is unmarried and has one son.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Marcus Weinberg, Bundestag.de, in German
  2. Hamburgs CDU-Chef Weinberg tritt zurück Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 18, 2015.
  3. Board of Trustees Bundesstiftung Mutter und Kind.


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