Sandra Weeser Explained

Sandra Weeser
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Term Start:2017
Birth Date:1969 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Siegen, West Germany
Party:FDP
Nationality:German
Children:2

Sandra Weeser (; born 8 September 1969) is a German-French politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2017.[1]

Early life

Born in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Weeser obtained a degree in business administration in a dual education. She managed a car dealership from 2004 and worked for a major American corporation from 2011 to 2016. She was then Vice President of the Structural and Approval Directorate North in Koblenz.

Political career

Weeser became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[2] In parliament, she wa a member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy from 2017 to 2021[3] before becoming the chair of the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Building and Local Government in 2021.

In addition to her committee assignments, Weeser has been a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Weeser was part of her party's delegation in the working group on climate change and energy policy, co-chaired by Matthias Miersch, Oliver Krischer and Lukas Köhler.[4]

In late 2023, Weeser announced her intention to become one of her party's candidates for the 2024 European elections.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sandra Weeser Abgeordnetenwatch. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de. de. 2020-03-16.
  2. Web site: Abgeordnete. Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag. de. 2020-03-16.
  3. Web site: German Bundestag - Economic Affairs and Energy. German Bundestag. en. 2020-03-16.
  4. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ampel-koalition-das-sind-die-verhandlungsteams-von-spd.1939.de.html?drn:news_id=1316022 Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP
  5. Lars Hennemann (6 December 2023), FDP-Bundestagsabgeordnete Sandra Weeser im Interview: „Wir müssen vor allem jetzt die Wirtschaft stützen“ Rhein-Zeitung.