Albert Weiler

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Albert Weiler

Albert Helmut Weiler (born October 15, 1965 in Mayen ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2013 . In parliament he represents the Bundestag constituency of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - Saale-Holzland-Kreis - Saale-Orla-Kreis in East Thuringia.

Family and origin

Albert Weiler was born in Mayen in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1965 as the son of the railroad worker Ludwig Weiler and his wife Maria. The family ran a small farm as a sideline , in which Weiler regularly supported the parents in addition to school. He is married and has one son.

Career history

After graduating from secondary school, Albert Weiler successfully completed two apprenticeships in Trier from 1982 to 1986 as an electrical system installer and an energy system electronics technician. These formed the basis for his subsequent training as a train driver at the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate. He then worked for several years as a train driver for the Federal Railroad in the Cologne and North Rhine-Westphalia area. In addition to his job, he studied at the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Berufskolleg in Cologne-Deutz for the Abitur and passed the exams in 1990 with distinction. Between 1992 and 1995 Albert Weiler studied administrative sciences at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Cologne and Brühl. After graduating with a degree in administrative management (FH) , he went to the Federal Property Administration and then to the German Patent and Trademark Office in Munich. He then moved to the Jena branch in order to reorganize the organization there and to carry out staff measurements. In the meantime, he took part in a part-time degree with a focus on increasing productivity and process optimization at the REFA Institute in Darmstadt / Dortmund, which he graduated in 2002 as a business economist. At the same time, he continued his education at the Pedagogical Institute for Economics in Bebra in the areas of labor, collective bargaining and grouping law. After the end of the personnel measurement in the German Patent and Trademark Office in Jena, he switched to local administration . For five years, he headed the Bergbahnregion / Schwarzatal administrative association in Oberweißbach in Thuringia in the function of an elected full-time administrative association chairman .

Albert Weiler then worked for a limited period as managing director of the municipal software developer CIP. Under his leadership, among other things, five new subsidiaries were founded throughout Germany. He was then appointed to the Thuringian Institute for Curriculum Development, Teacher Training and Media (THILLM), where he worked as a consultant in management development and was responsible for property management. At the same time, he studied political science at the Free University of Berlin from 2007 and obtained his master's degree in political science in 2007. At the request of the mayor and the city council, Albert Weiler again switched to local government and worked for three years as a managing administrative officer for the city of Kahla in Thuringia. Before his mandate in the Bundestag, Albert Weiler again headed the administrative association “Bergbahnregion / Schwarzatal” in Oberweißbach from 2010 to 2013. For the federal elections in 2013 and 2017, he won the direct parliamentary mandate for his East Thuringian constituency.

Political commitment

He was a member of the SPD for over twenty years . There he belonged to the conservative party wing, which is close to the Seeheimer Kreis . In 1998 he ran for the office of mayor of Geretsried for the SPD . After the decision of the SPD to form a coalition with the PDS in the state of Brandenburg , Weiler resigned in 2002. He became a member of the Thuringian CDU and has been deputy chairman since 2003 and first chairman since 2010 of the CDU local association "Gebirge / Milda". Since 2004 he has been honorary mayor of the community of Milda , and since 2014 he has also been a member of the district council in the Saale-Holzland district .

Federal politics

In the 2013 federal election , Weiler ran as a direct candidate of the CDU for the constituency of Jena-Gera-Saale-Holzland and was able to prevail over his competitors.

In the 18th German Bundestag he was a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy , the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid and the Advisory Board on Sustainability. In the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs, he and Carsten Linnemann advocated the implementation of the Flexi pension . Since then, SGB III, which regulates the issues of unemployment benefit I, has been one of his speakers' topics within the CDU parliamentary group. He is the only East German federal politician who negotiates in the area of ​​labor and social affairs at the federal level. In the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, he increasingly advocated comprehensive development aid in Africa, which, in addition to improving the drinking water supply, also included access to electrical energy and strengthening the local labor market in developing countries.

In September 2017 he ran again as a CDU direct candidate for the newly created constituency 195 ( Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - Saale-Holzland-Kreis - Saale-Orla-Kreis ) and was able to defend his mandate. He took part in the drafting of the coalition agreement between the CDU / CSU and the SPD in 2018. In December 2019, it was announced that he and other members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group opposed a ban on tobacco advertising in outdoor areas and in the cinema.

Part-time activities

  • Lecturer at the Thuringian Administration School Weimar
  • Lecturer at the municipal service company of the Thuringia municipality and city union in Erfurt
  • Lecturer at the Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development and Media Bad Berka

Voluntary work

He is involved in animal welfare and is deputy chairman of the Jena eV group in the German Teckelklub 1888 eV It is a member of the board of the Thuringia all-day school association. He is an honorary member of the privileged Prussian shooting society Gera and was the shooting king in 2014. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Thüringer Energie AG and Thüga. Weiler is deputy chairman of the water and wastewater association “JenaWasser”.

Weiler initiated the establishment of a German-Armenian forum in 2015 and was then elected its chairman. In this capacity, he criticized the renewed escalation of the conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in 2016 . Weiler sided with Armenia, condemned Azerbaijani attacks and accused Azerbaijan of disregarding the peace process. In terms of international law, however, the region still belongs to Azerbaijan, even if it is predominantly inhabited by Armenians. In August 2018, Weiler, who wanted to take part in a visit by Chancellor Merkel to Azerbaijan as part of the German delegation , was refused entry by the Azerbaijani side in advance.

For his involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Weiler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia in 2016 , which he then initially received as Dr. hc in his name. In 2017, the Thuringian Ministry of Science, following a request from the left-wing member of the state parliament, Christian Schaft , decided that Weiler should not receive his honorary doctorate in Germany as Dr. hc , but only in Armenian or (as an Honorary Doctor ) in English.

Web links

Commons : Albert Weiler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Albert H. Weiler, CDU / CSU. German Bundestag, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b With the dachshund in the Bundestag: Candidates of the constituency 194 Jena-Gera-Saale-Holzland presented. Ostthüringer Zeitung, September 14, 2013, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Jena: CDU Bundestag candidate Weiler is not a bore. Thüringische Landeszeitung, September 24, 2013, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b c Carl-Christian Eick: The political career of Albert Weiler. Mercury, October 24, 2017, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Albert Weiler from 2013 again head of the Oberweißbach administrative community. Ostthüringer Zeitung, November 27, 2012, accessed on February 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Weiler emphasizes ambitions for a successful federal election. (No longer available online.) CDU Jena, March 3, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 6, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cdu-jena.de  
  7. ↑ Meeting participant - Albert Weiler. Citizen info Saale-Holzland-Kreis, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Angelika Munteanu; Frank Kalla: election victory for Albert Weiler. Ostthüringer Zeitung, September 23, 2013, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Bundestag election 2013 in Thuringia - final result: constituency 194 Gera - Jena - Saale-Holzland-Kreis. Regional Returning Officer Thuringia, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dr. hc Albert Weiler: "I want to get things moving". CDU / CSU parliamentary group, June 1, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  11. ↑ A hamlet on wind power and road construction in Sa-Ru. Ostthüringer Zeitung, January 30, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ CDU candidate Albert Weiler gets the direct mandate for the Bundestag. Thüringer Allgemeine, September 25, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  13. ↑ 2017 Bundestag election in Thuringia - final result: constituency 195 Saalfeld-Rudolstadt - Saale-Holzland-Kreis - Saale-Orla-Kreis. Regional Returning Officer Thuringia, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  14. ↑ CDU man Albert Weiler will be negotiating the grand coalition in a specialist group from Monday in Berlin. Ostthüringer Zeitung, January 29, 2018, accessed on February 8, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Clear the way for tobacco advertising ban. Tagesschau.de, December 10, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
  16. ^ Albert Weiler founds the German-Armenian Forum in Berlin. albert-weiler.de, May 21, 2015, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  17. ^ Albert Weiler condemns the Azerbaijani attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh in the strongest possible terms. German-Armenian Forum e. V., April 4, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Azerbaijan refuses entry to members of the Bundestag. Spiegel Online, August 20, 2018, accessed September 10, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Honorary doctorate in Armenia for CDU politician Weiler in Milda. Ostthüringer Zeitung, June 9, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2018 .
  20. ^ Tilo Zippel; Jörg Riebartsch: Weiler is only allowed to have doctorates in Armenian and English. Ostthüringer Zeitung, May 23, 2017, accessed on September 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamlet, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiler, Albert Helmut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen