Markus Tressel

Markus Tressel (2014)

Markus Stefan Tressel (born April 17, 1977 in Saarlouis ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Tressel is a member of the German Bundestag , to which he has belonged since the 2009 Bundestag election . He has been co-chairman of the Greens in Saarland since 2017 alongside Tina Schöpfer .

Life and work

In 1996 Markus Tressel graduated from the Max-Planck -Gymnasium in Saarlouis , where he was the student representative . He broke off his studies in political and administrative sciences at the Saarland University in 2000 in favor of a job as state manager for the Saarland Green Party. Tressel is married and has two children.

Party and politics

He has been a member of the Greens since 1994. On April 1, 2000, at the age of 23, he took up the position of regional manager of the Saar-Greens. The party was not represented in the Saarland state parliament at the time . From May 2002 to October 2004 Tressel was full-time political director of the Greens in Saarland and a member of the state executive board. He headed the federal election campaigns of the Saarland regional association in 2002 , 2005 and 2009 and was also a candidate for the Bundestag on the party's state list. Since October 2004, the re-entry of a Green parliamentary group into the state parliament, he was the parliamentary group manager and also honorary political manager of the Saar-Greens as well as a member of the state executive board.

In 2003 Tressel was a member of the speakers' council and co-founder of a citizens' initiative against waste incineration in the Ensdorf power plant , and in 2007 he was a co-founder and member of a citizens' initiative for climate and environmental protection against a large coal power plant in Ensdorf. This initiative was able to push through a public survey and ultimately prevent RWE from building a new building. Tressel has also been a member of the board of directors of the youth and communication center SBS (old depot) in Saarlouis since 2004 and a member of the board of trustees of the German Seminar for Tourism Berlin eV

In May 2017, following the resignation of Hubert Ulrich , he became co-chairman of the Greens in Saarland alongside Tina Schöpfer .

The Association of German Travel Journalists awarded him the Columbus Prize of Honor in 2017.

MP

In the 2009 Bundestag elections, Tressel took first place in the Saarland state list of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and was elected to the German Bundestag. There Markus Tressel was the tourism policy spokesman and chairman of the tourism committee in the 17th legislative period as well as a deputy member of the committee for food, agriculture and consumer protection. In the 2013 federal election, Tressel confirmed his seat in the plenary. With the decision of the Green Group on December 19, 2013, he was appointed a full member of the Committee on Tourism and the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and a deputy member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. He is the spokesman for tourism policy and rural areas of the Green parliamentary group.

Web links

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

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Markus Tressel on parliamentwatch.de
• Homepage of the MP
• Edith Kresta: "The tourism industry is systemically relevant". In: The daily newspaper . June 17, 2020 (Interview with the tourism officer of the Greens Markus Tressel). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE GREEN SAAR: State Board | THE GREEN SAAR. Retrieved June 18, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Markus Tressel, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ( Memento from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Telepolis special 01/2008, p. 26
4. ↑ Udo Lorenz: Tressel replaces Ulrich as chairman of the Greens . In Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 7, 2017