Thomas Webel
Thomas Webel | |
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![]() Webel in 2012 | |
Minister of Regional Development and Transport of Saxony-Anhalt | |
Assumed office 19 April 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Reiner Haseloff |
Preceded by | Karl-Heinz Daehre |
Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in Saxony-Anhalt | |
In office 13 November 2004 – 17 November 2018 | |
Preceded by | Wolfgang Böhmer |
Succeeded by | Holger Stahlknecht |
Personal details | |
Born | Bad Pyrmont, West Germany | 27 July 1954
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Thomas Webel (born 27 July 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Life and politics
[edit]Webel was born 1954 in Bad Pyrmont and became member of the CDU in 1990.
From 1990 to 2002 Webel was a member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, the legislative body of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Webel was chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt from 2004 to 2018.[1]
Since 2011, Webel has been serving as State Ministry of Regional Development and Transport in the government of Minister-President Reiner Haseloff.[2][3][4][5] As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he is a member of the Committee on Transport and of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.
Other activities
[edit]- Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Handbuch des Landtages von Sachsen-Anhalt. Magdeburg 2015. p.45.
- ^ "IS-Argebau". bauministerkonferenz.de. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ Magdeburg, Volksstimme. "… dann würde der Osten abgekoppelt". www.volksstimme.de (in German). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ KRANERT-RYDZY, HENDRIK. "Thomas Webel: Der Börde-Baron". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ Bock, Jens Schmidt und Michael. "Opposition setzt Webel zu". www.volksstimme.de (in German). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ Members of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA).