Rainer Wieland
Rainer Wieland (born February 19, 1957 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and politician . He became known to a wider public through his activities as a politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since 1997 and one of its fourteen Vice-Presidents since 2009. As a MEP of the CDU, he belongs to the parliamentary group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) , which is the largest parliamentary group in the European Parliament in the 8th legislative period. His support area since 1997 includes the Stuttgart region , with the state capital , and the five surrounding districts of Ludwigsburg , Esslingen , Böblingen , Rems-Murr-Kreis and Göppingen , and since 2004 also the area of the city and district of Heilbronn . Wieland has been President of the non-partisan European Union Germany since 2011 .
Live and act
He studied law in Tübingen and Heidelberg and completed his legal clerkship in Stuttgart. In the Junge Union Gerlingen he was local chairman from 1975 to 1980. Wieland was chairman of the JU district association in Ludwigsburg from 1981 to 1983. From 1985 to 1988 he was first deputy district chairman of the Junge Union Nord-Württemberg and from 1990 to 1992 deputy state chairman of the JU Baden-Württemberg. He was a member of the CDU federal party committee from 1983 to 1991. Since 1991 he has been a member of the board of the CDU district association North-Württemberg. He is a partner and founding member of the law firm Theumer, Wieland & Weisenburger, founded in 1992. He has been chairman of the CDU district association in Ludwigsburg since 1993. From 1984 to 1998 he was a member of the local council of the city of Gerlingen and the district council of the Ludwigsburg district. Since 1993 he has been chairman of the CDU district association. He has been represented in the regional assembly of the Stuttgart Region Association since 1994.
In 2001, he founded his law firm in Brussels as the sole representative. He was chairman of the non-partisan Europa-Union Baden-Württemberg from 2001 to 2013 and was a member of the ZDF television council from 2006 to 2016 . Wieland is Vice President of the European Movement International. Since 2009 he has been Vice President of the European Parliament and since 2011 President of the non-partisan European Union Germany.
In May 2019, Rainer Wieland was re-elected from first place on the CDU state list Baden-Württemberg to the European Parliament, where he was confirmed as Vice President.
Activity as a lawyer
Rainer Wieland has been a partner in the law firm "Theumer, Wieland & Weisenburger" in Stuttgart since 1992. There he is responsible for the subjects of European law and family law .
Duties and responsibilities as a member of parliament
Wieland is Vice-President of the European Parliament with special responsibility for buildings, the budget, transport, the environmentally conscious parliament, the ad hoc working group for the implementation of measures and strategies in the field of security, relations with the French, Belgian and Luxembourg authorities on issues relating to the seat and the Concerning places of work of the parliament, he is the representative of the parliamentary president for Africa and the ACP group (African, Caribbean and Pacific states). He is a member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the Committee on Development . He is a deputy in the Legal Affairs Committee and the Petitions Committee . Wieland is a full member of the Parliamentary-Joint Assembly of the Agreement between the States of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean and the European Union ( ACP- EU). He is a deputy for the delegation in the EU - Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a deputy in the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly . He is also chairman of the regional group of CDU members from Baden-Württemberg in the European Parliament
Other activities and memberships
During his studies he became a member of the Ulmia Tübingen Landsmannschaft . Wieland is a member of the non-partisan Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament and has been President of the Europa-Union Germany since November 27, 2011. Rainer Wieland has been involved in the Balkans for years through on-site visits and student exchanges with schools in Baden-Württemberg.
Honors
- 2009: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2018: Honorary citizen of the Kosovar city of Drenas
Web links
- Homepage of Rainer Wieland mdep.de
- Entry on Rainer Wieland in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- gerlingen.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ europa-union.de
- ↑ europa-union.de
- ↑ Results of the 2019 European elections in Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ Website of the law firm “Theumer, Wieland & Weisenburger”
- ↑ europarl.europa.eu
- ↑ cdu-bw.de
- ^ Rainer Wieland is the new President of the European Union
- ^ Rainer Wieland on the road in Kosovo
Eugen Kogon (1949–1954) | Paul Leverkuehn (1954) | Ernst Friedlaender (1954–1957) | Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim (1957–1973) | Theo M. Loch (1973–1980) | Walter Scheel (1980–1989) | Egon Klepsch (1989–1997) | Hans-Gert Pöttering (1997–1999) | Elmar Brok (1999-2006) | Peter Altmaier (2006–2011) | Rainer Wieland (since 2011)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wieland, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (CDU), MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th February 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |