Markus Töns
German politician
Markus Töns | |
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 Markus Töns in 2018 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
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| Born | (1964-01-01) 1 January 1964 (age 60) Gelsenkirchen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | SPD |
Markus Töns (born 1 January 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
Political career
From 2005 until 2017 Töns served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. In this capacity, he also represented the state on the European Committee of the Regions from 2012 until 2017.
Töns became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Gelsenkirchen.[1] In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.[2][3] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on Brexit.
Other activities
- Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)[4]
- German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member
References
- ^ "Markus Töns, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 25 September 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag – Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag – Economic Affairs and Energy". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Bernd Westphal und Anke Rehlinger koordinieren neu konstituierten Politischen Beirat des SPD-Wirtschaftsforums Archived 20 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of 1 July 2020.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Markus Töns.
- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography (in English)
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