Michael Brand (politician)

Michael Brand ( born November 19, 1973 in Fulda ) is a German politician ( CDU) and since 2005 member of the German Bundestag.

Life and career

After graduation in 1994 at the School Winfried Fulda fire did his military service began in 1995 and a degree in political science, history and law at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, which he finished in 2001 as a Master of Arts (MA). During his studies he worked from 1995 to 2000 at the European Balkan Institute in Bonn and spent 1997 to 1998 also studying abroad in Sarajevo, where he among other things 1998 was used as election observers of the OSCE. In Bonn fire also joined the scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas Salia. After completing his studies until 2005 fire spokesman of the CDU faction in the parliament of Hesse and the CDU Regional Association Hesse.

Michael Brand is married since 2004 and has three children.

Party

Fire came as a student in 1988 in the Junge Union (JU ) and 1993 in the CDU a. Fire belonged from 1991 to 1996 on the board of the JU district association Fulda and was from 1992 to 1996 Deputy District Chairman. From 2000 to 2001 fire was press secretary of the JU Germany.

Member of Parliament

Since 2005, fire is a member of the German Bundestag. Here he is rapporteur for waste disposal and packaging in the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Member of the Defense Committee and Vice Chairman of the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.

Michael Brand is drafted as a directly elected representative of the constituency of Fulda in the Bundestag. In the 2005 federal election he reached here 39.1 % of the primary vote and sat down with it, inter alia, against the excluded from the CDU present representative of the constituency, Martin Hohmann, by. On 27 September 2009 fire was elected in constituency 175 Fulda with 49.8 % in the Bundestag. In the general election on 22 September 2013, reached a first vote of 58.3 %, thus extending its mandate for the federal electoral district Fulda 174

Memberships

  • Since 2006 Member of the County Council Fulda
  • Since 2009 Member of the Programme Committee and since 2013 the Board of Trustees of the Point Alpha Foundation
  • Since 2009 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
  • Since 2010 Member of the Advisory Board Rhön Biosphere Reserve
  • Helps since 2012 Member of the Board of Trustees Action Germany
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