Volkmar Vogel

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Volkmar Vogel
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Volkmar Vogel in 2013
Parliamentary State Secretary for Building, Housing and Urban Development
Assumed office
2020
MinisterHorst Seehofer
Preceded byMarco Wanderwitz
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2002
Personal details
Born (1959-01-18) 18 January 1959 (age 62)
Gera, East Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyCDU
Children2

Volkmar Uwe Vogel (born 18 January 1959) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Thuringia since 2002.

Political career[]

Vogel first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2002 national elections, representing the Gera – Greiz – Altenburger Land district.[1]

In parliament, he served on the Committee on Transport, Construction and Urban Development (2002–2013), the Committee for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture (2005–2009), the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (2014–2020) and the Committee on Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Communities (2018–2020).

In addition to his committee assignments, Vogel was part of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2018 to 2020.[2][3] In this capacity, he served on the Assembly's Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons and its Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People.

Since 2020, Vogel has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer, succeeding Marco Wanderwitz.[4]

Other activities[]

  • Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council (2009–2013)
  • Rockwool Germany, Member of the Advisory Board (2013–2020)

References[]

  1. ^ "Volkmar Vogel". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
  2. ^ Volkmar Vogel Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
  3. ^ Europarat: Parlamentarier wählen neuen Generalsekretär Handelsblatt, June 21, 2014.
  4. ^ Teil einer Personalrochade: Neuer Innen-Staatssekretär Vogel tritt Amt an Thüringer Allgemeine, February 14, 2020.

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