Thomas Webel | |
Term Start1: | 19 April 2011 |
Office2: | Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union in Saxony-Anhalt |
Term Start2: | 13 November 2004 |
Term End2: | 17 November 2018 |
Birth Date: | 27 July 1954 |
Thomas Webel (born 27 July 1954) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Webel was born 1954 in Bad Pyrmont and became member of the CDU in 1990.
From 1990 to 2002 Webel was a member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, the legislative body of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Webel was chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt from 2004 to 2018.[1]
Since 2011, Webel has been serving as State Ministry of Regional Development and Transport in the government of Minister-President Reiner Haseloff.[2] [3] [4] [5] As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he is a member of the Committee on Transport and of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.