Markus Töns | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
Term Start: | 2017 |
Birth Date: | 1964 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Gelsenkirchen, West Germany |
Party: | SPD |
Nationality: | German |
Markus Töns (born 1 January 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
From 2005 until 2017 Töns served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. In this capacity, he also represented the state on the European Committee of the Regions from 2012 until 2017.
Töns became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Gelsenkirchen.[1] In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy.[2] [3] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on Brexit.