Markus Ferber

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Markus Ferber (born January 15, 1965 in Augsburg ) is a German politician ( CSU ). From 1999 to 2014 he was chairman of the CSU European group in the European Parliament , of which he has been a member since 1994. In 2005 he was elected district chairman of the CSU Swabia. He has been Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation since the beginning of 2020 .

education and profession

Markus Ferber grew up in Langenneufnach and Bobingen. After elementary school, he switched to the humanistic grammar school near Sankt Stephan , where he graduated from high school in 1984. He did his 15-month basic military service in Pinneberg and Klosterlechfeld and then began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich in 1985 , which he completed in 1990 as a graduate engineer. He then worked as a development engineer in the microelectronics area at Siemens AG in Munich and, two years later, moved to the dosing system manufacturer Pfister GmbH in Augsburg as a sales engineer for export in the area of ​​environmental technology, for whom he worked until his election to the European Parliament.

Political career

Political party

Ferber joined the Junge Union (JU) in 1982 and the CSU in 1983. From 1990 to 1994 he was district chairman of the JU Swabia, and since 1990 he has been a member of the district board of the CSU Swabia. From 1999 to 2005 Ferber headed the CSU district association Augsburg-Land. In 2005 he was elected district chairman of the Swabian CSU. Ferber prevailed in a vote against Georg Schmid , the declared favorite of the then party chairman Edmund Stoiber, and has held the office ever since.

European Parliament

Markus Ferber at the European Congress of the ASP (2019)

At the age of 29 years Ferber was in 1994 the European Parliament voted, is there, the EPP - Group of. From 1994 to 1999 he was the spokesman for the Young Group of the Group of the European People's Party. After working as Parliamentary Managing Director of the CDU / CSU group from 1996 to 1999, Ferber was elected chairman of the CSU Europe group in 1999. He held this office for fifteen years. For the European elections on June 7, 2009 , Markus Ferber was nominated as the top candidate by the CSU. In 2014 he stood for the second time as the top candidate of his party. Overall, this was his fifth candidacy for the European Parliament.

Ferber was Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and an active member of the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly and the Delegation for relations with Israel .

Markus Ferber has been a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs since 2009 and was the first deputy chairman of the committee from 2014 to 2018. Since 2018 he has been the spokesman for the EPP Group in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Ferber is also an alternate member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism .

Further political engagement

Ferber has been regional chairman of the Europa-Union Bayern since 2000 . In addition, he heads the “European Committee” of the CSU Foreign and Security Policy Working Group (ASP) .

Positions

Ferber advocated that rating agencies must assign their ratings according to a uniform and fixed system. Ferber called criticism that this would curtail freedom of expression as wrong. “Rating agencies must also take responsibility for what they do,” he demanded, citing the financial consequences of incorrect ratings for taxpayers.

In 2011 the EU Parliament passed a regulation on short sales and credit default insurance to curb destructive speculation. As shadow rapporteur for the EPP group in the European Parliament, Ferber enforced very strict EU-wide conditions for short sales and a trade ban with uncovered credit default insurance (credit default swaps - CDS) in the negotiations with the member states and the Commission.

Awards

  • In 2006 Markus Ferber was named "MEP of the Year" by the international trade journal The Parliament Magazine .
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (October 12, 2001)
  • In 2007, Markus Ferber received the award as “Transport Politician of the Year” from the specialist magazine Deutsche Verkehrszeitung (DVZ) for his work as the European Parliament's rapporteur on postal liberalization in Europe .
  • In 2010 Ferber was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.
  • 2012 Awarded the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver
  • 2013 Award of the Mérite Européen .

Web links

Commons : Markus Ferber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanns Seidel Foundation: General Assembly elects MEP Markus Ferber unanimously as the new Chairman of the Hanns Seidel Foundation (from 1.1.2020) , October 21, 2019
  2. ↑ Markus Ferber . European Parliament. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Brussels takes on the rating agencies . The world. November 16, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Prohibitions in the fight against gamblers . tagesschau.de. October 19, 2011. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
  6. ↑ Award of the Bavarian Constitutional Medal 2012 (PDF) Bavarian State Parliament. November 30, 2012. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ Europe guarantees data protection (PDF) Europa-Union Bayern. December 2013. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016. Retrieved on February 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Ferber, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CSU), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg