Mark Weinmeister

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Mark Weinmeister (2016)
State Secretary Mark Weinmeister (right) together with Carsten Wilke (left) and Berthold Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach (center) at the awarding of the Georg Ludwig Hartig Prize 2009 to Hans-Joachim Weimann (2nd from right).

Mark Weinmeister (born July 10, 1967 in Kassel ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1999 to 2008 and from 2014 . From February 5, 2009 to December 6, 2013 he was State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . Since January 18, 2014, he has been State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs in Hesse. He succeeds Zsuzsa Breier . In the black and green state government, the European department has been transferred from the Ministry of Justice to the Hessian State Chancellery. He is married and has two children.

education and profession

After graduating from the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Melsungen in 1986, Weinmeister did his military service in Fritzlar from 1986 to 1987 . Between 1987 and 1994 he studied teaching in Göttingen in the subjects of German, history, education and politics. From 1995 to 1997 he worked as a trainee lawyer in Melsungen and Guxhagen and from 1998 to 1999 as a teacher at the comprehensive school Gudensberg and the comprehensive school Melsungen.

politics

Weinmeister has been a member of the CDU since 1987 and has been chairman of the CDU Guxhagen since 1991 , from 1995 to 1999 district chairman CDA Schwalm-Eder, from 1998 to 2005 district chairman CDA North Hesse, since 1998 member of the district committee CDU Kurhessen-Waldeck.

In terms of local politics, Weinmeister has been a member of the Guxhagen municipal council since 1989 (1997–2009 parliamentary group chairman), since 1993 as a member of the Schwalm-Eder district assembly (parliamentary group chairman since 2001) and was active in the North Hesse regional assembly from 2001 to 2011.

Weinmeister became a member of the Hessian state parliament on April 5, 1999. There he was a member of the budget committee, the main committee, the cultural policy committee and the sub-committee for financial and administrative control. From 2003 to 2008 he was deputy chairman of the budget committee and a member of the presidium of the Hessian state parliament, in 2006 he became media policy spokesman for the CDU state parliament group.

In the state elections in 2009 Weinmeister missed the re-entry into the state parliament. Since February 5, 2009 he has been State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. At first he worked under Silke Lautenschläger ; after the cabinet reshuffle, Lucia Puttrich is Minister of State. In 2011, Weinmeister signed the disconnection order for the Biblis nuclear power plant , the operator of which RWE Power AG then filed a lawsuit. An investigative committee in the Hessian state parliament has been dealing with the decommissioning of the power plant since March 2014.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , he won a state parliament mandate on the CDU state list. Due to the incompatibility of office and mandate, his office as State Secretary ended six weeks before the end of the electoral term. In the Bouffier II cabinet he became State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs in Hesse. His successor in the state parliament was Lena Arnoldt .

In 2015, Mark Weinmeister ran unsuccessfully against Winfried Becker for the office of district administrator in the Schwalm-Eder district . In 2018 he became the successor of long-time chairman Bernd Siebert in the Schwalm-Eder CDU district association .

Since 2014 he has been a full member of the State of Hesse in the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union. There he is a member of the ENVE (environment) and NAT (agriculture) commissions. In the NAT he is the coordinator (spokesman) of the EPP group . In the state elections in Hesse in 2018, he was defeated in the Schwalm-Eder I constituency for the sixth time in a row by the SPD candidate Günter Rudolph , but this time due to the losses of the SPD, he did not enter the state parliament via the CDU state list.

Other offices

Weinmeister is a member of the Advisory Board of the Kreissparkasse Schwalm-Eder and was a member of the assembly of the Hessian State Authority for Private Broadcasting 2003-2008. Since the beginning of 2008 he has been a member of the synod of the evangelical church district of Melsungen. Weinmeister and Stefan Stübing have been leading the Schwalm-Eder working group of the Hessian Society for Ornithology and Nature Conservation (HGON) since 2014.

Web links

Commons : Mark Weinmeister  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: Weinmeister's Difficult Appearance , in: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 28, 2015, p. D8
  2. ↑ The State Returning Officer for Hesse: Elected from the state lists ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2013 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. (Accessed December 29, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wahlen.hessen.de
  3. ↑ State Secretaries Petra Müller-Klepper and Mark Weinmeister adopted (accessed December 29, 2013)
  4. ↑ CDU party congress elects Mark Weinmeister as district administrator [1] (accessed January 14, 2015)
  5. ↑ The Siebert era comes to an end after 30 years at the Schwalm-Eder CDU. HNA, March 21, 2018, accessed March 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weinmeister, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel