Thomas Viesehon

Thomas Viesehon (2017)

Thomas Viesehon (born August 6, 1973 in Volkmarsen ) is a German politician ( CDU ). He represented the Waldeck constituency from 2013 to 2017, the 18th German Bundestag .

Life

Viesehon grew up with three siblings in his parents' farm and after graduating from high school in 1992, he trained as a banker , which he completed in 1995. After completing his military service , Viesehon worked for the Raiffeisenbank in Volkmarsen from 1996 , and since 2001 as a customer advisor.

Viesehon lives with his wife Cora, a hearing aid acoustician , in Hörle .

Viesehon became a member of the Junge Union in 1989 . In 1994 he joined the CDU , of which he is deputy chairman in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district . He has been a city councilor since 1997 and was chairman of the CDU city council group in Volkmarsen from 1997 to 2011. Since 2011 he has been First City Councilor and thus Deputy Mayor of his hometown.

He ran unsuccessfully as a direct candidate for the CDU in the Bundestag electoral district of Waldeck in the 2009 Bundestag election and the 2017 Bundestag election .

MP

In the federal election in 2013 , he ran again and won with 41.5 percent of the primary vote, the direct mandate. He beat the incumbent Ullrich Messmer ( SPD ) just by 227 votes; thus he conquered the constituency, which was considered an SPD stronghold, for the first time for his party, which was also able to win a federal constituency in northern Hesse for the first time.

In the 18th electoral term of the Bundestag, Viesehon was a full member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and a deputy member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Food and Agriculture .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Viesehon - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Schünemann: New member of the Bundestag Thomas Viesehon on the way to Berlin. In: HNA.de , September 23, 2013.
^ Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de , accessed on September 18, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Viesehon, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Volkmarsen

[1] Bernd Schünemann: New member of the Bundestag Thomas Viesehon on the way to Berlin. In: HNA.de , September 23, 2013.

[2] Members of the Committee on Food and Agriculture. ( Memento from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bundestag.de , accessed on September 18, 2014.