Jan Metzler

Jan Metzler (2020)

Jan Metzler (2014)

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Jan Metzler (born July 5, 1981 in Worms ) is a German politician ( CDU ). On September 22, 2013, he ran as a direct candidate for the Worms constituency . With 42.0 percent, he was the first direct candidate for the CDU to win this constituency, which had previously been won by the SPD since 1949 .

In the 2017 federal election , he defended his constituency and was confirmed as a directly elected member with 41.1 percent of the vote.

Life

Metzler attended the Von Dalberg School in Dittelsheim-Heßloch from 1988 to 1992 . Then he went to the secondary school in Osthofen, where he obtained his secondary school leaving certificate in 1998 . He then began vocational training as a winemaker , following in the footsteps of his father Helmut Metzler to take over the family winery together with his sister Julia, who was Rheinhessen wine queen in 2006/07 . After completing his training as a winemaker in 2001, he obtained his technical college entrance qualification at the Bad Kreuznach technical college. From 2003 to 2004 he completed a distance learning course in event management . At the University of Applied Sciences in Worms , he took a degree in commercial management until 2008, followed by a degree in international management , which he completed in 2010 with the academic degree of Master of Arts . From 2005 to 2008 he was a student assistant at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms with a focus on personnel management and has been the coordinator for international student exchanges there since 2008.

In the Bundestag

From 2013 to 2017 , Jan Metzler was a full member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and the subcommittee for regional economic policy and ERP business plans . He was a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the "Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation" subcommittee . He is also one of the 75 Union MPs - 68 from the CDU (26.9% of all CDU MPs) and 7 from the CSU (12.5% ​​of all CSU MPs) - who voted for same-sex marriage at the end of June 2017 .

For the 19th German Bundestag , Metzler is again represented as a full member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy and the subcommittee on regional economic policy and ERP business plans . He is also a member of the “Artificial Intelligence” study commission and a deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Interparliamentary Union . Since April 24, 2018, he has been a member of the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Engagement outside the German Bundestag

Political mandates

• since 2004: Member of the Alzey-Worms district council
• 2004 to 2017: Member of the Wonnegau municipal council
• 2004 to 2014: Member of the Dittelsheim-Heßloch local council

Since 2017 member of the parliamentary committee of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group

Political offices

• 2016–2019: District Chairman of the CDU Alzey-Worms, deputy since 2019
• 2009 to 2013: Chairman of the Junge Union Rheinhessen-Pfalz
• 2003 to 2012: District chairman of the Junge Union Alzey-Worms
• since 2001: Member of the CDU district committee for Rheinhessen-Pfalz
• since 2000: Member of the CDU district executive in Alzey-Worms

Volunteering

• since 2018: President of the THW -Landesvereinigung Rheinland-Pfalz eV
• since 2011: Member of the Federal Board of the Young Economic Council until 2017
• since 2008: Deputy state chairman of the Young Economic Council in the Rhineland-Palatinate Economic Council until 2017
• since 2006: Member of the German-Ukrainian Society for Economy and Science
• since 2004: Youth lay judge at the Worms District Court until 2014
• since 2003: Member of the Mainz Ranzengarde

Others

Jan Metzler is one of six young politicians from Rhineland-Palatinate who were accompanied during the 2017 federal election campaign for the documentary The Candidates (2018) . The film by director Michael Schwarz celebrated its premiere on September 29, 2018 in the Capitol in Mainz.

literature

• Kürschner's People's Handbook of the German Bundestag. 19th electoral period / 2017–2021 , 146th edition, as of July 4, 2018; P. 196. ISBN 978-3-95879-091-9

Web links

Commons : Jan Metzler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Own homepage
• Biography at the German Bundestag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Preliminary result: Worms constituency - direct elected: Metzler, Jan (CDU) ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Wahlen.rlp.de from September 22, 2013  
2. ↑ Preliminary result: Worms constituency - direct elected: Metzler, Jan (CDU) ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Wahlen.rlp.de, accessed on September 25, 2017 
3. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies 18th WP (2013-2017) . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on September 17, 2018]).
4. ↑ WORLD: Marriage for all: Which MPs for and which voted against . In: THE WORLD . June 30, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).
5. ^ German Bundestag - Jan Metzler . In: German Bundestag . ( bundestag.de [accessed on September 17, 2018]).
6. ↑ Jan Metzler elected 97 percent to the board of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . In: Jan Metzler Member of the Bundestag . April 25, 2018 ( janmetzler.de [accessed September 19, 2018]).
7. ^ Election of board members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Retrieved September 19, 2018 . 
8. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co. KG: Film "The Candidates": Six people from Rhineland-Palatinate on the way to political success. Retrieved September 17, 2018 . 
9. ↑ The candidates | CAPITOL & PALATIN. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 17, 2018 ; accessed on September 17, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.