Marcus Weinberg | |
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 Weinberg in 2014 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2005–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1967-06-04)4 June 1967 (age 57) Hamburg,West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | CDU |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Occupation | Politician |
Marcus Weinberg (born 4 June 1967 inHamburg) is a German politician who served as a member of theBundestag from 2005 to 2021.
After high school, Weinberg served as aBundeswehr soldier from 1987 to 1991. Afterwards he studied History at theUniversity of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2007 Weinberg was a teacher inWilhelmsburg.[1]
Weinberg was a member ofHamburgische Bürgerschaft, the parliament of Hamburg, from 2001 to 2005. From 2011 to 2015 he also served as chairman of CDU Hamburg. He resigned from that position after his party scored its lowest result in history in the2015 state elections.[2]
Weinberg became a Member of the GermanBundestag in the2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group'srapporteur on thevalidation of foreign studies and degrees. From 2009 to 2021, he served on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
In the negotiations to form aGrand Coalition ofChancellorAngela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the BavarianCSU) and theSocial Democrats following the2013 federal elections, Weinberg was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led byJohanna Wanka andDoris Ahnen.
Since 2022, Weinberg has been a partner in the Hamburg-based communications agency Guru.[3]
In June 2017, Weinberg voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction ofsame-sex marriage.[5]
Ahead of the Christian Democrats’leadership election in 2018, Weinberg publicly endorsedAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party's chair.[6] He later expressed support forJens Spahn[7] but eventually endorsedNorbert Röttgen as Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor at the party's2021 leadership election.[8]
Weinberg is unmarried and has one son.[1]
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