Andreas Weigel (politician)

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Andreas Weigel (born June 24, 1964 in Werdau ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 2002 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

education and profession

After attending the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) in Werdau, Weigel completed an apprenticeship as a turner from 1981 to 1983 and then worked in his learned profession in a turnery in Zwickau . From 1995 to 1998, Weigel completed an apprenticeship in social management at the Administrative College in Meißen .

Activity for the Johanniter

In 1990, Weigel moved to Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Westsachsen as managing director . From 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the executive board of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Zwickau / Zwickauer Land and from 1999 to 2002 of the executive board of the Johanniter regional association of South West Saxony.

From 2003 to 2007 Weigel was an honorary member of the state board of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe eV Landesverband Sachsen and then until 2010 a member of the presidium of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe eV

Since the summer of 2010, Weigel has been the full-time state director of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe eV state association of Saxony-Anhalt / Thuringia. Weigel is also a member of the Johanniter Labor Law Commission (tariff commission).

Political party

Weigel joined the SPD in 1994 and was chairman of the SPD sub-district Aue- Zwickau from 1999 to 2007 . From 1998 to 2007 he was a member of the SPD state executive committee of Saxony . On December 10, 2006, Weigel was elected Secretary General of the Saxon SPD with 53% of the vote at a party congress of the Saxon SPD. After a conviction in the first instance for fraud on December 13, 2006, Weigel declared that he would leave his office as general secretary of the Saxon SPD until the final conclusion of the proceedings. On May 2, 2007, Weigel resigned from the office of the Saxon SPD General Secretary after his final conviction for subsidy fraud in the appeal process. In 2002, in his former function as a member of the board of the Johannitern, he gave incorrect information in connection with wage subsidies from the Federal Labor Office , which resulted in a loss of almost 10,000 euros. Since January 2008 he has been chairman of the newly founded SPD district association Zwickau.

Weigel has been the chairman of the Christian Working Group of the SPD Saxony since December 2010. He has also been on the federal executive committee of the SPD Working Group Christians in the SPD (AKC) since 2014.

Weigel has been a member of the Security and Defense Policy Forum at the SPD party executive committee and the Security & Bundeswehr Commission headed by former State Secretary Walter Kolbow since 2010.

MP

Weigel was a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 to 2009, elected via the Saxony state list . He was a member of the Committee on Family, Senior Women and Youth, the Defense Committee and the Subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control. Weigel has also been a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since 2002 .

Together with the then MP and later Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , Weigel campaigned for the outlawing of cluster munitions during this time. Weigel represented the Federal Republic of Germany together with Frank Walter Steinmeier when the international agreements were signed on December 3, 2008 in Oslo.

Weigel ran again for the 2013 federal election, but unsuccessfully.

Local politics

From 1990 to 2008 Weigel was a member of the district council of the Zwickauer Land district . He was also a member of the Königswalde municipal council since 1990 , which is now part of the city of Werdau. From 1994 to 2001 Weigel was honorary mayor or mayor of Königswalde. Weigel has been a member of the district council of the Zwickau district since 2014. Since July 2014 he has been chairman of the SPD / Greens parliamentary group there.

Church offices

Among other things, Weigel was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony from 2008 to 2014 and heads the Social-Ethical Committee there. From 2009 to 2015, Weigel was also a member of the EKD Synod as first deputy. From 1996 to 2008 Weigel was chairman of the Saxon Association of Protestant Day Care Centers.

Controversy over the protection of the constitution

In March 2010 the Berliner Zeitung reported that in addition to his work for Weigel, a researcher at Weigel worked for the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution from 2003 to 2005. A short time later, the newspaper withdrew the report and printed a counter-statement because the article was based on false allegations. Other newspapers reported that the man actually had a contractual relationship with the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( Senate Department for the Interior of the State of Berlin, Department of the Protection of the Constitution ) for six months and was involved in a working group on right-wing extremism. Weigel was aware of this activity of his speaker. The position at the Berlin Interior Authority was advertised publicly.

family

Andreas Weigel is married and has two children. His father Hansjörg Weigel (1943-2020) was a civil rights activist and pacifist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxon SPD general secretary convicted of fraud. In: Saxon newspaper. December 13, 2006.
  2. ^ SPD general secretary convicted of fraud . on: handelsblatt.com , May 2, 2007.
  3. ↑ Germany against the ban on cluster bombs. In: daily newspaper . May 19, 2008, accessed February 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Outlawed Bombs. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 4, 2008, accessed February 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Internet presence of the district of Zwickau , accessed on February 15, 2016.
  6. ↑ Counterstatement to "Verfassungsschutz spitzelte im Parlament" in the Berliner Zeitung of March 23, 2010 . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 7, 2010.
  7. ^ Frank Jansen , Ingo Schmidt-Tychsen: Referent von Diensten. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 24, 2010, accessed December 21, 2010 .
  8. ^ Allegations against employees: spy affair about SPD-Weigel . In: Saxon newspaper. March 24, 2010.
  9. ↑ Bundestag in good shape. on: tageszeitung.de , March 24, 2010.
  10. ↑ Protection of the Constitution in the Bundestag. In: New Germany. March 24, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Weigel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau