Marcus Weinberg

Marcus Weinberg (2014)

Video presentation (2014)

Marcus Weinberg (born June 4, 1967 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Since 2005 he has been a member of the German Bundestag and since 2014 family policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and chairman of the working group on family, senior citizens, women and youth of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1987, Weinberg served as a temporary soldier with the Panzerartilleriebataillon 177 in Hamburg-Rahlstedt until 1991 . He left the Bundeswehr as a staff sergeant . He then completed a teaching degree in history , social sciences and education at the University of Hamburg , which he completed in 1997 with the first state examination . After completing his legal clerkship , he also passed the second state examination in 2001 and then worked as a teacher at the Catholic Bonifatius School in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg until 2005 . He is a member of the German Bundestag and family policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group .

Political party

Weinberg has been a member of the CDU district executive in Hamburg-Altona since 1998 , where he was deputy chairman of the district association from 2004 to 2012 and has been chairman of the district association since 2016. He is also a member of the CDU state executive in Hamburg . Between 2011 and 2015 he was a member of the federal executive committee of the CDU . Since the federal party conference in December 2018, he has returned to the federal executive committee.

After the CDU's defeat in the Hamburg state elections in 2011 , the CDU state chairman Frank Schira declared that he would no longer stand as a candidate. In order to determine his successor, the CDU regional association started a member survey, in which Weinberg as a candidate u. a. competed against Karin Prien and received the most votes with 36.2 percent. His election as state chairman at the state party conference on 15./16. June 2011 it succeeded with the approval of 71 percent of the delegates. At the state party conference on March 22, 2014, Marcus Weinberg was re-elected as CDU state chairman with 82 percent of the vote. He achieved a result similar to that of his re-election in 2012. After the CDU only received 15.9 percent of the votes in the Hamburg state election in 2015 , Weinberg drew the consequences and resigned as state chairman on February 18, 2015. He is still a member of the state executive committee of the CDU Hamburg. Since 2016 he has been deputy chairman of the Federal Committee for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth.

Marcus Weinberg was the top candidate of the CDU Hamburg for the state election in Hamburg 2020 .

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Weinberg was a member of the district assembly of Hamburg-Altona from 1997 to 2001 and of the Hamburg parliament from 2001 to 2005 . In the citizenry, he was most recently the youth policy spokesman and deputy chairman of the CDU parliamentary group.

He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2005, where he is a member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth and a deputy member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs .

Weinberg always entered the Bundestag via the Hamburg state list . As a direct candidate in the Hamburg-Altona constituency, he has so far been defeated by his SPD competitor (initially Olaf Scholz , then in 2013 and 2017 to Matthias Bartke ).

Since the summer of 2012, Weinberg and twelve other Union Members of the Bundestag have been publicly advocating the tax equality of registered same-sex partnerships with marriage .

Weinberg has been the family policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group since January 2014 . In the 2020 state elections in Hamburg on February 23, Weinberg did not succeed in re-entering the Hamburg state parliament.

More functions

Weinberg is a member of the boards of trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Frischluft eV association. Since 2013, he has been captain of the FC Bundestag and a member of the CDU regional committee ASEE (foreign, security, European and development policy). Since 2015 (as well as 2009–2012) he has been chairman of the Jürgen Echternach Foundation for Education and Democracy eV , Hamburg and deputy chairman of the State Political Society eV, Hamburg.