Martin Burkert | |
---|---|
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party in Bavaria | |
Assumed office 12 May 2013 Servingwith Johanna Uekermann | |
Leader | Natascha Kohnen |
Preceded by | Ulrike Mascher |
Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria | |
In office 18 September 2005 –1 February 2020 | |
Succeeded by | Bela Bach |
Constituency | Social Democratic Party List |
Personal details | |
Born | Würzburg,West Germany | 14 October 1964
Political party | SPD |
Martin Burkert (born 14 October 1964) is a German politician and member of the SPD.
Burkert was born in Würzburg. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 national elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and,from 2013 on,the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure;he chaired the committee from 2013 to 2017. [1] In his first term from 2005 until 2009,he was also a member of the Committee on the Environment,Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.
In addition to his committee assignments,Burkert served as deputy chairman of the German-Mexican Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2014 until 2019. He was also a member of the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group.
Within the SPD parliamentary group,Burkert belonged to the Parliamentary Left,a left-wing movement. [2] He was a member of the working group on municipal policy. From 2010 until 2019,he led the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from Bavaria,one of the largest delegations within the parliamentary group.
Since 2013,Burkert has been serving as deputy chairman of the SPD in Bavaria,under the leadership of successive chairpersons Florian Pronold (2013-2017) and Natascha Kohnen (since 2017).
In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections,Burkert was part of the working group on transport and infrastructure,led by Michael Kretschmer,Alexander Dobrindt and Sören Bartol.
By the end of 2019,Burkert resigned from parliament to join the board of railway and transport union EVG. [3] [4] He was replaced by Bela Bach,the next SPD candidate on the party-list.
Garrelt Duin is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).
Sören Bartol is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Housing,Urban Development and Building in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. He has been a member of the German Parliament since 2002.
Anja Hajduk is a German psychologist and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.
Johannes Kahrs is a former German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as a member of the German parliament,Deutscher Bundestag,from 1998 until 2020.
Oliver Wittke is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Dorothee Gisela Renate Maria Bär is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. From 2014 to 2021,she served in various capacities in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Norbert Barthle is a German politician of the Christian Democratic (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from 1998 until 2021,representing Backnang –Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Oliver Krischer is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens who has been serving as State Minister for Environment,Nature Protection,and Transport in the government of Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wüst since 2022.
Kirsten Lühmann is a German politician with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD),deputy federal chairwoman of the German Civil Service Federation and,since the German federal elections of 2009,a member of parliament for the SPD.
Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Since 2018,he has been the SPD parliamentary group's spokesperson for foreign affairs in the German Bundestag.
Carsten Günter Erich Sieling is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as the President of the Senate and Mayor of Bremen from 2015 to 2019. His successor is Andreas Bovenschulte.
Andreas Franz Scheuer is a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party. From 15 December 2013 to 13 March 2018,he was Secretary General of the CSU. From 2009 to 2013,he was Parliamentary Secretary of State in the former Federal Ministry for Transport,Building and Urban Development in the Cabinet Merkel II. He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. In 2016,he was also elected district chairman of CSU Lower Bavaria.
Lars Klingbeil is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as the party's Co-Leader since 2021,together with Saskia Esken.
Bettina Hagedorn is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since September 2002,representing Ostholstein - Stormarn-Nord. From 2018 to 2021,she also served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance under minister Olaf Scholz in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Bärbel Bas is a German politician (SPD) from Duisburg who has served as the President of the Bundestag since 2021. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since the federal election in 2009. She served as the deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Rolf Mützenich from 2019 to 2021.
Steffen Bilger is a German politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag for the constituency of Ludwigsburg.
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017,he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
Bernd Reuther is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
Detlef Müller is a German train driver and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony from 2005 till 2009 and since 2014,representing the Chemnitz district.
Ulrich Lange is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2009.