Markus Uhl

Markus Uhl
Markus Uhl in 2017
Member of the Bundestag
for Saarland
Assumed office
18 July 2017
Preceded byAlexander Funk
Personal details
Born (1979-10-31) 31 October 1979
Cologne, West Germany
(now Germany)
PartyCDU
Alma materSaarland University

Markus Alexander Uhl (born 31 August 1979) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland from 2017 to 2025. Following his departure from parliament, he returned to a civil service position in Saarland’s State Ministry of the Interior.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Uhl studied business economics at the Saarland University.

Political career

From 2017 to 2022, Uhl served as Secretary General of the CDU in Saarland, under the leadership of successive chairs Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (2017–2018) and Tobias Hans (2018–2022).[2]

Uhl became member of the Bundestag for Homburg in the 2017 German federal election.[3] In parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Budget Committee.[4] In this capacity, he served as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

In addition to his committee assignments, Uhl was a member of the German delegation to the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly from 2019.

In 2021, Uhl was defeated for re-election by Esra Limbacher, but returned to Parliament on the list after the resignation of Peter Altmaier.

References

  1. ^ Janek Böffel (2 November 2025), Früherer CDU-Generalsekretär Ex-Bundestagsabgeordneter Markus Uhl hat jetzt einen neuen Job Saarbrücker Zeitung.
  2. ^ Janek Böffel (2 November 2025), Früherer CDU-Generalsekretär Ex-Bundestagsabgeordneter Markus Uhl hat jetzt einen neuen Job Saarbrücker Zeitung.
  3. ^ "Markus Uhl". CDU/CSU-Fraktion. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. ^ "German Bundestag - Transport and Digital Infrastructure". German Bundestag. Retrieved 23 March 2020.