Marcus Weinberg


Marcus Weinberg is a German politician and since 2005 member of the Bundestag.

Early life and career

After high school, Weinberg served as a Bundeswehr soldier from 1987 to 1991. Afterwards he studied History at the University of Hamburg. From 2001 to 2007 Weinberg was a teacher in Wilhelmsburg.

Political career

Weinberg was a member of Hamburgische Bürgerschaft, the parliament of Hamburg, from 2001 to 2005. From 2011 to 2015 he also served as chairman of CDU Hamburg. He resigned from that position after his party scored its lowest result in history in the 2015 state elections.
Weinberg has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2005 elections. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the validation of foreign studies and degrees. Since 2009, he has been serving on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats following the 2013 federal elections, Weinberg was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and Doris Ahnen.

Other activities

In June 2017, Weinberg voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage. Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, he publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.

Personal life

Weinberg is unmarried and has one son.