Silke Weyberg

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Silke Weyberg (born May 27, 1966 in Ohlum , Peine district ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1985 in Ilsede , she began training as an agricultural technical assistant in Lüneburg and Schaumburg . Afterwards she studied agriculture at the University of Kassel .

After completing her studies, she worked as a research assistant and education officer. In other professional positions she worked as managing director of the Federation of German Rural Youth , advisor to the German farmers' association and head of public relations for the Sustainable Agriculture Association (FNL). Until December 31, 2018, she worked in the North Regional Office of the Biogas Association for the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. This task has been integrated together with the representation of the interests of all renewable energies in Lower Saxony and Bremen in the Landesverband Erneuerbare Energien Niedersachsen-Bremen eV, whose managing director Silke Weyberg is now.

She is married and has two grown children. Her family runs a farm in Hohenhameln.

politics

From 2001 to 2006, Weyberg was a councilor in the Hohenhameln community council with responsibility for social and school policy. From 2005 to 2013 she was chairwoman of the CDU district association Peine , from 2006 to 2010 she was deputy chairwoman of the CDU regional association in Braunschweig. Since the local elections in autumn 2006, Silke Weyberg has been a member of the district council in the Peine district for the CDU .

Weyberg was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 2003 to 2008 as a directly elected member of the Peine Land constituency . She was a member of the budget committee and deputy chairperson of that body. In the 2008 state elections, she was defeated by the SPD candidate Matthias Möhle in the Peine constituency ; In 2011, however, she replaced the late MP Karl-Heinrich Langspecht in the state parliament and became a member of the committee for food, agriculture, consumer protection and state development. At the end of the 2013 state parliament election period, Weyberg withdrew from professional politics, but remained active in local politics and is currently the chair of the environmental committee in the Peine district.