Tobias Josef Zech

Tobias Josef Zech (born 9 July 1981 in Trostberg) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).

Tobias Josef Zech
Tobias Zech 2009
Member of the Bundestag
In office
2013 – 2017
Assumed office
2020
Personal details
Born (1981-07-09) 9 July 1981
Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany
NationalityGerman
Political partyChristian Social Union of Bavaria
OccupationPolitician

Early life and career

After receiving vocational training at Edeka, Zech was a contract soldier in a combat company in Brannenburg. Since 2009 he studied business administration in Munich University of Applied Sciences and joined EADS in Munich in 2010. Then Zech was a project manager of the Commercial Ludwig Bolkow research campus.

Political career

In 2002, Zech was elected to the regional council of Garching an der Alz, where since 2007 worked as a tourism consultant and since 2008 as a fraction chairman of the CSU. In 2009 he was elected as a district chairman of the CSU Garching as well as regional chairman of the Junge Union of Altötting, since 2011 he worked as a regional Chairman of the Junge Union of Upper Bavaria's largest regional association of the Junge Union of Germany.

From 2013 until 2017 Zech served as a Member of the German Bundestag, where he was a full member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and for Economic Cooperation and Development, and a deputy member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development. On the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, he served as rapporteur on China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, South Korea, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

From 2014, Zech was also a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), where he served on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination; the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy; the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs; and the Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World.[1] He served as the Assembly's rapporteur on Lebanon. [2]

Zech returned to the Bundestag in May 2020, when he succeeded Astrid Freudenstein.[3]

Other activities

Political positions

In June 2017, Zech voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of same-sex marriage.[4]

Personal life

Zech is a Roman Catholic; he is married and has two children.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-02-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. heimatzeitung.de. "Zech in den Bundestag?". heimatzeitung.de. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. Tobias Zech wieder im Bundestag Passauer Neue Presse, May 15, 2020.
  4. Diese Unionsabgeordneten stimmten für die Ehe für alle Die Welt, June 30, 2017.


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