Tom Weidig | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2023 | |
| Constituency | Centre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 December 1972 Esch-sur-Alzette,Luxembourg |
Tom Weidig (born 9 December 1972) is a Luxembourgish politician. [1] He has served as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Centre since 2023,as a representative of the right-wing Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR). [1]
Weidig was born and brought up in Esch-sur-Alzette. [2] His parents were from Grevenmacher. [2] As a teenager,he represented Luxembourg at the World Junior Chess Championship. [2] He graduated from Imperial College London in 1996 with a Master of Science degree in Theoretical Physics,and earned his doctorate from Durham University in 1999. [1] He was then a postdoc at UMIST,and in 2001 a visiting scholar at Trinity College,Cambridge. [3] He later worked in the finance and venture capital industries. [2] He supports the promotion of the Luxembourgish language. [3]
In February 2025,Weidig received a written warning from his party after he liked a Facebook comment that was described as being anti-LGBTQ+. [4] He issued an apology,but also insisted his actions had been misunderstood. [4]