Uwe Schummer

Uwe Schummer (born 14 November 1957 in Adelaide, Australia) is a German politician of the (Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from Willich who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2002. Since 2014 he has been Commissioner of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group for people with disabilities. He is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, where he served as chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2009 to 2014.

Uwe Schummer
Schummer in 2012
Born (1957-11-14) 14 November 1957
Adelaide, Australia
NationalityGerman
OccupationPolitician
Websitehttps://uwe-schummer.de/

Early life and career

After finishing school in 1974, Schummer completed an apprenticeship as a merchant. From 1979 to 1980 he did his military service in the Bundeswehr sports promotion section in Warendorf. From 1978 to 1983 he took part in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the German Athletics Championships. After his military service, Schummer worked as a clerk at Stadtwerke Willich until he 1983 when he began to work for the Catholic Workers Movement (KAB). From 1987 to 1989 he was Chief of Staff at the parliamentary office of Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm (CDU). In 1989 he became press spokesman of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association (CDA).

Member of the Bundestag

Schummer has always won direct election to the Bundestag in the Viersen constituency:

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Schummer was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Johanna Wanka and Doris Ahnen.

Following the 2017 elections, Schummer announced that he would not stand in the 2021 elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[2]

Other activities

Political positions

Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2018, Schummer publicly endorsed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed Angela Merkel as the party’s chair.[5] In 2019, he joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an open letter, called for the party to rally around Merkel and Kramp-Karrenbauer amid criticism voiced by conservatives Friedrich Merz and Roland Koch.[6]

In 2019, Schummer joined an international group of parliamentarians in a joint call for a body to strengthen the democratic representation of the world’s citizens in global affairs and the UN’s decision-making.[7]

References
  1. "Uwe Schummer (CDU) wins significantly". RP Online. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  2. Andreas Reiner (December 26, 2019), RP-Gespräch mit dem CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneten Uwe Schummer: Erfolge der Koalition besser verkaufen Rheinische Post.
  3. "action medeor". action medeor. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  4. "Supervisory Board". RWE Power AG. Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  5. Uwe Schummer würde AKK wählen Rheinische Post, November 14, 2018.
  6. Jens Schneider (October 30, 2019), Machtkampf in der CDU: Abgeordnete nennen parteiinterne Kritik "extrem schädlich" Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  7. Call to action on the creation of a UN parliamentary assembly The Guardian, March 6, 2019.
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