Markus Töns

Markus Töns
Markus Töns in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1964-01-01) 1 January 1964 (age 61)
Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political partySPD

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.

Early life and career

After graduating from high school in 1985 in Gelsenkirchen, he successfully completed his studies in political science in 1995, earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster. He then worked as a consultant for political education at the "Aktuelle Forum NRW" from 1996 to 2001, where he gained valuable experience in the field of political education. From 2002 to 2005, he served as a research associate for Hans Frey, a member of the state parliament, assisting him in various political matters.[1]

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.[2] In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.[3][4] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on Brexit.

Other activities

References

  1. ^ "Markus Töns". Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 11 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Markus Töns, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 25 September 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ^ "German Bundestag – Committee on European Union Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ^ "German Bundestag – Economic Affairs and Energy". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ^ 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.
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