Peter Weiß (politician)

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Peter Siegfried Weiß (born March 12, 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He is chairman of the work and social affairs group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group.

Life and work

Peter Weiß grew up in Reute in the southern Baden region of Emmendingen and later in Freiburg im Breisgau. After graduating from high school in 1976, Weiss studied Catholic theology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen until 1982 . He then completed a traineeship and then worked as an editor in Munich . In 1985 he moved to the federal headquarters of the German Caritas Association in Freiburg im Breisgau as a press officer . From 1988 to 1990, Weiß was personal advisor to the Secretary General and from 1990 to 1991 he was commissioner for cooperation with the associations in the new federal states. From 1991 he was head of department in the general secretariat and from 1993 also managing director of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg .

Peter Weiß is married, Catholic and has three children.

Political party

From 1976 to 1982, Weiß was a member of the Board of Directors of the South Baden District Association of the Junge Union (JU) and the State Board of JU in Baden-Württemberg . He was also district chairman of the Junge Union Freiburg. After initially being deputy chairman from 1989 to 1991, he was chairman of the CDU district association in Freiburg from 1991 to 1997. From 1994 to 1998 he was chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Freiburg municipal council.

Weiß is a member of the board of the CDU district association in South Baden. Since 2000 he has been chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) in southern Baden and a member of the executive board of the CDA.

MP

Weiß has been a member of the German Bundestag since 1998 . From 2009 to 2018 he was chairman of the workers' group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. On January 29, 2018, he was elected chairman of the labor and social affairs group. In addition, he has the following positions:

  • Member of the Labor and Social Committee
  • Member of the mediation committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat
  • Deputy member of the health committee
  • Chairman of the Latin America working group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
  • Deputy Chairman of the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Group
  • Deputy member in the Franco-German assembly

Peter Weiß has always moved into the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Emmendingen - Lahr constituency . In the 2017 Bundestag election , he received 37.6% of the first votes .

Social Commitment

Weiß is involved in various organizations and associations. He is u. a. Board member of the Xertifix association , member of the planning committee of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , president of the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk and chairman of the Maximilian-Kolbe-Stiftung, deputy chairman of the Caritas Council for the Archdiocese of Freiburg and chairman of the Action Mentally Ill. In addition, he is u. a. Member of the ethics advisory board at Pax-Bank .

Political positions

Peter Weiß justifies his political positions with Christian social teaching, which obliges him to first turn to those who are disadvantaged and who are on the margins of society. This Christian perspective is of central importance to him, especially in labor market policy.

In order to ensure more fair wages, he was active in the enforcement of industry minimum wages and the like. a. for nursing assistants and temporary workers involved. Furthermore, he is intensively committed to a generally binding lower wage limit, in which collective bargaining autonomy is preserved. At the federal party convention of the CDU in 2011, a lower wage limit was finally decided for areas in which there are no collective agreements.

He deals intensively with pension policy issues. He has made a significant contribution to improving maternal pensions. Most recently, in order to avoid poverty in old age, he called for changes to the disability pension and compulsory insurance for solo self-employed persons in the statutory pension insurance with an opt-out option. He played a key role in shaping the new company pension strengthening law.

Peter Weiß has advocated priority for qualification and further training of the local workforce to secure the future needs of skilled workers. The influx of experts from countries outside the EU in shortage occupations should be of secondary importance.

In labor market policy, Weiß advocates new integration opportunities for the long-term unemployed. With the new five-year wage subsidies and support from a coach, this should succeed.

Weiß is critical of an extension of the maximum duration of short-time work allowance and the reimbursement of social security contributions.

He sees one of the main reasons for the emigration of young university graduates from Germany to the fact that they are often only offered limited-term employment or lower-paid temporary employment. He therefore calls for a rethink of the economy.

One of Peter Weiß’s concerns is the better participation of people with disabilities. He contributed to the creation of the Federal Participation Act and campaigned for the new instruments budget for work and budget for training.

Web links

Commons : Peter Weiß (politician)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography - Peter Weiß Member of the Bundestag . In: Peter Weiß MdB . ( peter-weiss.de [accessed on June 23, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Working group and social affairs . CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, accessed on February 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Election of the working group chairmen . CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, press release, January 29, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Minimum wage instead of freedom of movement. In: FAZ.net . September 1, 2010, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Minimum wage for nurses ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: aerzteblatt.de . May 20, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aerzteblatt.de
  6. ^ Daniela Vates: The statutory minimum wage is getting closer In: berliner-zeitung.de of May 16, 2011
  7. ↑ www.n24.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated November 29, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.n24.de  
  8. ^ Dietrich Creutzburg: Union prepares minimum wage law. In: handelsblatt.com. January 12, 2012, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Proposal of the employee group: Union wants self-employed in statutory retirement. In: Focus Online. December 19, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Short-time work: CDU politicians for restraint. In: zdf.de. August 25, 2020, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  11. ↑ The Union and the Potential. In: tagesspiegel.de. January 4, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Know, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Peter Siegfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau