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Gabi Weber
Gabriele "Gabi" Weber (born 24 March 1955) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) who served as member of the German Bundestag from 2013 until 2021. Early life and career Weber went to college from 1969 to 1972 and did a training as a ceramic painting, ceramic painter. She worked in this profession until 1980. Since 1969, Weber has been a member of the union ''IG Chemie-Papier-Keramik'' (trade union for Chemistry-Paper-Ceramics in Germany). From 1980 to 1982 she was trained as a full-time union secretary. From 1980 to 1991 she was Union Secretary at the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) in the city of Kassel. In the same position, she was employed from 1991 to 1993 for DGB Rhein-Lahn and from 1996 to 2001 DGB Koblenz; from 1993 to 1995 she served as chairperson of the DGB district Rhein-Lahn. From 2001 up until November 2015 she was union chairwoman of the DGB Region Koblenz. Political career Role in regional polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundestag
The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Bundestag was established by Title III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (, ) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus it is the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag. The members of the Bundestag are representatives of the German people as a whole, are not bound by any orders or instructions and are only accountable to their electorate. The minimum legal number of members of the Bundestag (german: link=no, Mitglieder des Bundestages) is 598; however, due to the system of overhang and leveling seats the current 20th Bundestag has a total of 736 members, making it the largest Bundestag to date and the largest freely elected national parliamentary chamber in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
