Axel Knoerig
Axel Knoerig (* 1. March 1967 in Bassum ) is a German CDU - politicians and political and communication scientists. Knoerig has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 . He is the deputy federal chairman of the CDA and deputy chairman of the employee group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the Lower Saxony State Helpers Association .
education and profession
Axel Knoerig attended elementary school and the orientation level in Bassum and then the grammar school in Syke .
After graduating from high school , he did his military service from 1987 to 1988 in the information and media center of the Bundeswehr . Today he holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve .
Axel Knoerig graduated from the University of Bonn in 1996 with a degree in political science with a focus on local science . He then worked in Berlin - initially as a speaker and project manager , later as a marketing specialist in the area of public relations - in the capital city representative of Telekom .
In the 2009 federal election Axel Knoerig won the direct mandate in constituency Diepholz - Nienburg I . He was confirmed in his office as a member of the Bundestag in the subsequent Bundestag elections on September 22, 2013 and on September 24, 2017.
politics
In 1980 Axel Knoerig joined the Junge Union ; since 1986 he has been a member of the CDU.
Knoerig was elected to the Bassum city council at the age of 19, to which he was a member from 1986 to 1997. From 1991 to 2001 he was also a member of the Diepholzer district assembly, in which he has again represented the CDU parliamentary group since 2011.
After moving to the integrated community of Kirchdorf in 2000, Knoerig was elected chairman of the CDU there. He was a member of the Kirchdorf municipal council from 2001 to 2006 and has been a member of the Kirchdorf municipal council since 2001. Since 2011 he has acted as chairman of the joint municipal council.
Axel Knoerig resigned his position as chairman of the CDU-Samtgemeindeverband Kirchdorf in August 2014, after he had been elected chairman of the CDU-Kreisverband Diepholz shortly before. For the CDU in Kirchdorf he is still active as a press officer on the board. From 1999 to 2014 he was also treasurer of the Diepholz CDU district association. Since 2016 he has acted as chairman of the shareholders' meeting of the business development agency in the Diepholz district.
In the 2005 Bundestag election, Knoerig ran for the first time as a direct candidate for the CDU in the Diepholz - Nienburg I constituency , and with 39 percent of the first votes did not achieve the required relative majority . For the 2009 Bundestag elections , he was again a direct candidate for the CDU in his constituency and was elected to parliament for the first time with a 37.5 percent share of the vote. With a share of the vote of 47.5 percent (almost ten percent plus), Axel Knoerig was confirmed in his office as a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 federal election. In the 2017 federal election, he again achieved a large majority with 44.6 percent.
During his first term of office as a member of the Bundestag (17th electoral period from 2009 to 2013), Axel Knoerig was a member of the Bundestag committee for education, research and technology assessment. As an alternate member, he was a member of the Defense, Sport and Affairs Committees of the European Union. In addition, he was a member of the "Internet and Digital Society" study commission and a deputy member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Within the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, he belonged to the working groups on local politics and the future of the location as well as the workers' group.
In his second term as Member of the Bundestag (18th electoral term from 2013 to 2017), Axel Knoerig was a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and a deputy member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment. As deputy chairman, he represented the workers' group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. He was also appointed as a full member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Within the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, he was also a member of the local politics working group and the TTIP AG. He was also a member of the reservist working group, the German-Baltic and German-Brazilian parliamentary groups as well as the Parliamentary Friends of Berlin-Taipei. In 2015 he published the book "Vier Punkt null: Future Paths of Christian Social Employment Policy in the Digital Age".
In the current 19th electoral term, Axel Knoerig is a full member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy as well as a deputy member of the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee for Health . In addition, he was appointed as a full member of the study commission "Vocational training in the digital world of work". He is also deputy chairman of the employee group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, a full member of the board of trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and a deputy member of the advisory board of the Federal Network Agency. In addition, he is represented in the following parliamentary committees of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group: WG Local Policy, Discussion Group Agriculture and Rural Areas, Strategy Working Group Digital and Working Group Africa. Other memberships in the German Bundestag: Reservist Working Group, German-Baltic Parliamentary Group, Parliamentary Friends of Berlin-Taipei, Parliamentary Group Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland).
In 2012 Knoerig was elected to the board of the CDU district association Hanover . In 2019 he was appointed to the federal committee "Economy, Jobs and Taxes".
Axel Knoerig has also been a member of the CDA since 1988 . From 2010 to 2014 he held the position of deputy CDA district chairman in Diepholz. He has been a member of the CDA's federal executive board since 2011, and has been deputy chairman since 2019. Since 2018 he has been a member of the "Digitization" and "Energy" working groups of the CDA Lower Saxony.
Honorary positions
Axel Knoerig has been volunteering in regional sports for many years. He acts as deputy chairman of the Diepholz district sports association and the Diepholz district sports association. As a founding member of the sports sponsorship association, he initiated the “Sports Day” in the Diepholz district.
From 2003 to 2017, Axel Knoerig was part of the main committee of the Diepholz district sports association as a district manager boxing. Since 2003 he has also been the head of the boxing division of TuS Syke .
He is also a member of the CARE Germany board of trustees . He is a volunteer member of the board of trustees for the Löwenherz Syke children's hospice . He is also a member of the board of directors of Kreissparkasse Grafschaft Diepholz.
Knoerig is a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.
Since 2018, Axel Knoerig has been the deputy chairman of the East Side Gallery eV artists' initiative, which is committed to maintaining and maintaining the longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall.
Private
Axel Knoerig is married and has one child. He is of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our structure. CARE Deutschland eV, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
- ^ German Bundestag - MPs. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knoerig, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bassum |