Tobias Josef Zech | |
|---|---|
 Tobias Zech 2009 | |
| Member of theBundestag forBavaria | |
| In office 25 May 2020 – 19 March 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Astrid Freudenstein |
| Succeeded by | Bernd Fabritius |
| In office 22 October 2013 – 24 October 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1981-07-09)9 July 1981 (age 44) |
| Political party | Christian Social Union of Bavaria |
| Occupation | Politician |
Tobias Josef Zech (born 9 July 1981) is a German politician of theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who served as amember of the Bundestag from 2013 until 2017 and from 2020 until 2021.[1]
Zech was born inTrostberg. After receivingvocational training atEdeka, Zech was a contract soldier in a combat company in Brannenburg. Since 2009 he studied business administration inMunich University of Applied Sciences and joinedEADS in Munich in 2010. Then Zech was a project manager of the Commercial Ludwig Bolkow research campus.
In 2002, Zech was elected to the regional council ofGarching an der Alz, where since 2007 worked as a tourism consultant and since 2008 as a fraction chairman of the CSU. In 2009 he was elected as a district chairman of the CSU Garching as well as regional chairman of the Junge Union of Altötting, since 2011 he worked as a regional Chairman of the Junge Union of Upper Bavaria's largest regional association of the Junge Union of Germany.
From 2013 until 2017 Zech served as a Member of the GermanBundestag, where he was a full member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and for Economic Cooperation and Development, and a deputy member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development. On the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, he served asrapporteur onChina,Japan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,North Korea,South Korea,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan andUzbekistan.
From 2014, Zech was also a member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), where he served on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination; the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy; the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs; and the Sub-Committee on theMiddle East and the Arab World.[2] He served as the Assembly'srapporteur onLebanon.[3]
Zech returned to the Bundestag in May 2020, when he succeededAstrid Freudenstein.[4]
In March 2021 Zech became part of a political scandal.[5] On 19 March 2021, he resigned from the Bundestag due to allegations related to Azerbaijan's "Caviar diplomacy"[6] and for receiving a large sum to campaign for former Macedonian PMNikola Gruevski.[7] He continued business relations with that country through cannabis-related company PharmCann Deutschland AG.[8]
In June 2017, Zech voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor ofsame-sex marriage.[9]
Zech is a Roman Catholic; he is married and has two children.
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