Martin Burkert

Martin Burkert
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Bavaria
Assumed office
12 May 2013
Serving with Johanna Uekermann
Leader Natascha Kohnen
Preceded by Ulrike Mascher
Member of the Bundestag
for Bavaria
Assumed office
18 September 2005
Constituency Social Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born (1964-10-14) 14 October 1964
Würzburg, West Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
Nationality  Germany
Political party SPD

Martin Burkert (born 14 October 1964) is a German politician and member of the SPD.

Political career

Burkert was born in Würzburg. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 national elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and, from 2013 on, the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure; he chaired the committee from 2013 to 2017. In his first term from 2005 until 2009, he was also a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

In addition to his committee assignments, Burkert has been serving as deputy chairman of the German-Mexican Parliamentary Friendship Group since 2014. He is also a member of the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Within the SPD parliamentary group, Burkert belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[1] He is a member of the working group on municipal policy. Since 2010, he has been leading the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from Bavaria, one of the largest delegations within the parliamentary group.

Since 2013, Burkert has been serving as deputy chairman of the SPD in Bavaria, under the leadership of successive chairpersons Florian Pronold (2013-2017) and Natascha Kohnen (since 2017).

Other activities

Regulatory agencies

Corporate boards

  • Adler Versicherungs AG, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • DB Cargo Deutschland, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • DEVK, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
  • S-Bahn Berlin, Member of the Supervisory Board
  • TeamBank AG, Member of the Advisory Board[2]
  • Schultheiss Wohnbau AG, Member of the Supervisory Board (2009-2014)
  • Sparda-Bank Nürnberg eG, Member of the Supervisory Board (2005-2010)

Non-profit organizations

References

  1. ↑ Members Parlamentarische Linke.
  2. ↑ https://www.easycredit.de/dokumente/geschaeftsbericht_easycredit_2015.pdf, Geschäftsbericht der Teambank AG 2015, Seite 79, abgerufen am 5. August 2016


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