Rainer Tabillion

Rainer Tabillion (born March 18, 1950 in Ottweiler ) is a German politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in Ottweiler in 1968, Tabillion did his military service and began studying biology and chemistry at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken in 1971 , which he completed in 1976 as a qualified biologist. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Microbiology at Saarland University. In 1982 he received his doctorate here as a Dr. rer. nat. with the thesis "Investigations into the heavy metal requirement and carbonic anhydrase of oxyhydrogen bacteria" . In 1984 he joined the city of Saarbrücken, where he worked as a department head at the environmental agency until 1985 and in investment management in 2005.

Rainer Tabillion is married and has two children.

Political party

In 1971 Tabillion joined the SPD. From 1989 to 2008 he was chairman of the SPD district association Neunkirchen and was a member of the SPD party council from 1994 to 2004. From 2000 to 2005 he was also general secretary of the SPD in Saarland .

MP

From 1974 to 1989 Tabillion belonged to the city council of Ottweiler and from 1986 to 2004 to the state parliament of Saarland . From 1998 to 1999 he was chairman and from 2000 to 2004 parliamentary director of the SPD parliamentary group.

From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Here he acted as spokesman for the Saarland regional group in the SPD parliamentary group .

Rainer Tabillion entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the St. Wendel constituency . In the 2005 Bundestag election , he was able to prevail against his opponents with 37.8% of the first votes . In the 2009 Bundestag election , he did not succeed in entering the Bundestag again. With 30.9% of the first votes, he lost his direct mandate to CDU politician Nadine Schön , who received 40.1% of the votes.

Web links

• SPD parliamentary group: Dr. Rainer Tabillion, Member of the Bundestag
• WHO'S WHO biography: Rainer Tabillion