Maik Beermann (born 19 October 1981) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the German

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from

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to 2021.

Early life and career

Beermann was born in Nienburg/Weser. After completing secondary school, He trained as a banker. Since 2009 he has been Market Area Manager at Sparkasse Nienburg.

Political career

Beermann joined the

Junge Union The Junge Union Deutschlands (''Young Union of Germany'') or JU is the joint youth organisation of the two conservative German political parties, CDU and CSU. Membership is limited to individuals between 14 and 35 years of age. Junge Union c ...

in 1997 and the CDU in 2001. From 2007 to 2012 he was district chairman of the Junge Union in the district of Nienburg. Since 2001 he is active as a member of the municipal council and in 2011, he became deputy mayor of the municipality Steimbke. From 2006 to 2016 Beermann was a member of the municipal council of Steimbke and since 2011 chairman of the school board and member of the finance committee of the municipal council. Since the local election in 2016, he is a member of the county council in the district of Nienburg and was elected deputy district councillor ( Landrat). He is a member of the district committee in the district council.

Member of Parliament, 2013–2021

In the

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, Beermann ran for the direct mandate in Nienburg II – Schaumburg constituency, but couldn't win despite gaining 41.6 percent of the first votes against

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. He was, however, on position 26 of the CDU state list Lower Saxony and thus elected to the Bundestag. In August 2016, he was again nominated as a direct candidate for the federal elections 2017 and again ranked 26th on the CDU state list in May 2017. In parliament, Beermann was a full member of the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Committee on Digital Agenda. He is a substitute member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture as well as in the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure. He was also a substitute on the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development. Within the

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parliamentary group, he was a member of the Young Group.

Political positions

In June 2017, Beermann voted against his parliamentary group's majority and in favor of Germany's introduction of

same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same sex or gender. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 33 countries, with the most recent being Mexico, constituting ...

. In September 2021, Maik Beermann complains about equality for women.Ann-Christin Busch (2 October 2021)
"Es nervt irgendwie": CDU-Mann beschwert sich über Gleichstellung
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Personal life

Beermann is married and has three daughters. The family residents in the village of Wendenborstel of the municipality of

Steimbke Steimbke is a municipality in the Nienburg (district), district Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km east of Nienburg, Lower Saxony, Nienburg, and 40 km northwest of Hanover, in a swamp and heathland, wh ...

in the district Nienburg.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beermann, Maik 1981 births Living people People from Nienburg (district) Members of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017