Oswin Veith

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Oswin Veith (2015)

Oswin Veith (born May 16, 1961 in Ober-Wöllstadt ) is a German politician ( CDU ) and administrative lawyer. From September 2013 to March 2020 he was a member of the German Bundestag . From 2016 to 2019 he was President of the Reservist Association and is Vice President of the German Army Support Group .

education and profession

Veith passed his Abitur at the Burggymnasium Friedberg in 1980 . Afterwards he did his basic military service and went through the training as a reserve officer as a conscript .

In 1981 Veith began studying law and political science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , which he completed with the first and second state examinations.

From 1991 to 1994 Veith worked as a consultant for public and constitutional law, legal advisor and military disciplinary attorney as well as law lecturer for the Federal Minister of Defense and then until 1995 as a research assistant to the Federal Minister of Justice at the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin. In 1993 he was appointed to the Government Council and in 1994 to the Upper Government Council. In 1995 the President of the Hessian Court of Audit in Darmstadt appointed him his personal advisor, press spokesman and audit group leader. In 1996 he was appointed government director .

Political party

Veith has been a member of the CDU since 1985. From 1986 to 1995 he was press spokesman for the CDU Wöllstadt and from 1998 to 2006 member of the board of the Butzbach city association. Since 2006 he has been a member of the CDU Wetterau district executive. There he was secretary from 2008 to 2010, in 2008 district council candidate and 2011 and 2016 top candidate for local elections in the Wetterau district and from 2012 to 2019 district chairman of the local political association (KPV) of the CDU Wetterau. In 2013 he was nominated by his party as a Bundestag candidate for constituency 177.

Mayor of the city of Butzbach from 1998 to 2006

After he was a candidate for mayor in Alsfeld in 1993 , Veith won the direct election for mayor of Butzbach in 1997 with 50.9 percent of the votes in the runoff election and took up his new office on March 26, 1998. In the following mayoral election on September 28, 2003, Oswin Veith was confirmed in the first ballot with 60.5% of the votes.

During his time as mayor, Veith took over the management of the Butzbach housing company for eight and a half years and was chairman of the supervisory board of Energie undversorgung Butzbach and the Landgrafenschloss-Gesellschaft Butzbach . He was also a member of the Presidium of the Hessian Association of Cities (2002–2006) and of the Hessian Association of Cities and Towns (2003–2006).

He initiated the establishment of a children's and youth council and a senior citizens' council and reintroduced the city's culture prize. Furthermore, he created the citizen's medal, henceforth the highest city award for special services to the community.

Vice district administrator of the Wetterau district

After his election as first district member in the Wetterau district on August 31, 2006, Veith gave up his mayor's office in Butzbach and took up his new office on October 9, 2006. Veith initially worked as a treasurer as well as finance, personnel, school construction and hospital department, and from August 2008 also as a social and family department head.

Member of the Bundestag

In the 2013 federal election, Veith won the direct mandate in the Wetterau I constituency with 47.1 percent of the first votes . In the 18th German Bundestag he was a full member of the Interior Committee and the Municipal Subcommittee, a deputy member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee and the Defense Committee as well as the Joint Committee .

In the 2017 Bundestag election , Veith was able to win the Wetterau constituency again and won the 19th German Bundestag with 36.4 percent of the first votes . In September 2019 it was announced that Veith will resign from his Bundestag mandate in February 2020, as he will take up the position of chairman of Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) on January 1, 2020 , on whose supervisory board he was elected in 2017. He resigned his mandate on March 1st, Bernd Siebert was the successor .

armed forces

After graduating from high school in 1980, Veith did his basic military service (W15) in the army's telecommunications unit before he embarked on a reserve officer career and was last promoted to colonel in 2011 .

As a reserved reservist in the personnel reserve, Veith has been a colonel and since 2010 the mirrored head of a general staff department of one of the three remaining divisions of the army. He has completed various military exercises ( RDL ), including numerous with NATO partners abroad, such as a. at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England. Veith was a member of the German CIOR delegation in Copenhagen, London, Calgary, Paris and Lillehammer.

Volunteering

From 1985 to 1995 Veith was the community representative in Wöllstadt, chairman of the social committee and member of the main and finance committee. From 1983 to 1991 he was also active in the Catholic parish council of the parish of St. Stephanus. Veith is also the chairman and member of various supervisory boards, boards of trustees and advisory boards. Since the beginning of 2012 he has been an honorary district member of the Wetterau district.

Private

Veith was baptized a Roman Catholic , married and has one daughter. He lives with his family in Bad Nauheim .

Web links

Commons : Oswin Veith  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oswin Veith, CDU / CSU , at www.bundestag.de, accessed on January 29, 2019
  2. ^ The Förderkreis Deutsches Heer e. V. , at www.fkhev.de, accessed on April 20, 2020
  3. Jürgen Wagner: Oswin Veith is moving from Berlin to Friedberg. In: Wetterauer-Zeitung.de. September 25, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .
  4. New Supervisory Board members for Ovag group. In : kreis-anzeiger.de. August 26, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  5. German Bundestag - Retired members of the 19th electoral term. In: bundestag.de . Retrieved March 3, 2020 .