Markus Uhl (politician)
Markus Alexander Uhl (born October 31, 1979 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since July 2017 .
Life
Uhl first attended the Luitpold elementary school in Homburg-Erbach and then graduated from the Saarpfalz-Gymnasium in Homburg . After graduating from high school, he began studying business administration and computer science at Saarland University , which he completed with a degree in business administration. He gained his first professional experience between 2009 and 2012 when he worked as project manager for eGovernment and electronic document management at the IT innovation center in Saarland. In 2012 he ended this activity and moved to the Saarland State Chancellery, where he most recently worked as Head of Division and Deputy Chief Information Officer of the Saarland state government. At the same time, between 2011 and 2013 he completed the part-time course in Speech Communication and Rhetoric at the University of Regensburg .
Political offices
Uhl joined the Junge Union in 1996 and the CDU in 1998. In both organizations, he held several offices at the municipal level, until he finally held office as state chairman of the Junge Union Saar from 2010 to 2015 and in the course of this office held several offices and functions at the state and federal level at the Junge Union and the CDU. Markus Uhl has been a member of the city council in his home town of Homburg since 2004 and has headed the CDU local association Homburg-Erbach since 2015. In the 2013 federal election , Uhl ran for state chairman of the Junge Union at number 5 on the CDU's state list, but this was not enough to get into the Bundestag. In the Saarland state elections in 2017 , he ran for the Saarland state parliament on the East constituency list . After the previous constituency member Alexander Funk announced in 2016 that he would no longer run for the Bundestag, Uhl was nominated as a direct candidate for the CDU for the Homburg constituency in July 2017 . After Alexander Funk was elected to the Saarland Landtag in 2017 and consequently resigned his Bundestag mandate in July 2017, Uhl moved up to the Bundestag with effect from July 18, 2017. In the 2017 federal election , Uhl won the direct mandate in constituency 299 with 33.6% against his competitor Esra Limbacher from the SPD, who received 31.4% of the first votes.
He has been Secretary General of the CDU Saar since November 2017 .
Uhl has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .
Personal
Uhl is married and lives in Homburg. He is a member of several organizations and associations, for example the non-partisan Europa-Union Deutschland .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://homburg1.de/markus-uhl-cdu-als-kandidat-fuer-den-landtag-nominiert-12344//
- ↑ http://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/zweibruecken/artikel/homburg-cdu-kuert-markus-uhl-als-bundestagskandidat/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uhl, Markus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uhl, Markus Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |