Thomas Gebhart | |
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 Gebhart in 2014 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Ralf Göbel |
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| Born | (1971-12-20)20 December 1971 (age 53) |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 1 |
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Thomas Gebhart (born 20 December 1971) is a German politician of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofRhineland-Palatinate since 2009.[1]
From 2018 until 2021, Gebhart served (alongsideSabine Weiss) one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries for Health.
In 1998, Gebhart worked as parliamentary assistant toHeiner Geißler. From 2002 until 2003, he was an employee of German chemical companyBASF.
From 2003 until 2009, Gebhart was a member of theState Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate. He served as his parliamentary group's spokesperson on environmental policy from 2006 until 2009.
Gebhart first became a member of the Bundestag in the2009 German federal election.[2] From 2009 until 2017, he served on the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety.
From 2018 to 2021, Gebhart was (alongsideSabine Weiss) one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries for Health.
In addition to his committee assignments, Gebhart is a member of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-French Parliamentary Friendship Group. He has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[3]
In June 2017, Gebhart voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[4]
In 2019, Gebhardt joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally aroundAngela Merkel and party chairwomanAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservativesFriedrich Merz andRoland Koch.[5] Ahead of the Christian Democrats’leadership election, he publicly endorsed in 2020Armin Laschet to succeed Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.[6]
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