Gabi Weber

Gabi Weber
Member of theBundestag forRhineland-Palatinate
In office 22 October 2013–2021
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-24)March 24, 1955 Ebernhahn,Rhineland-Palatinate,West Germany (nowGermany)
Citizenship	German
Nationality	Germany
Political party	German: Social Democratic Party EU: Party of European Socialists

Gabriele "Gabi" Weber(born 24 March 1955)is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party(SPD) who served as a member of the GermanBundestagfrom 2013 until 2021.

Early life and career

Weber went to college from 1969 to 1972 and did a training as aceramic painter.She worked in this profession until 1980.

Since 1969, Weber has been a member of the unionIG 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 theConfederation of German Trade Unions(DGB) in the city ofKassel.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 RegionKoblenz.

Political career

Role in regional politics

Since 1972 Weber has been member of the centre-left SPD. From 1998 to 2003 she was a member of the local council of Verbandsgemeinde Wirges. Since 2009 she has been serving on the city council ofWirges.

Member of the German Bundestag, 2013–2021

In the2013 national elections,Weber stood as a candidate in the parliamentary constituency ofMontabaurand at no. 9 at theRhineland-Palatinatestate list of SPD, led byAndrea Nahles.She was subsequently elected to the German Bundestag.

In her first term, Weber was a member the Defence Committee, the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and the Sub-Committee on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Integrated Conflict Management. In addition, she served as vice-chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for the States ofEast Africa,which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations withEthiopia,Burundi,Djibouti,Eritrea,Kenya,Rwanda,Somalia,SudanandUganda;thus far, Weber has visited Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi.

A member of the Defence Committee, Weber served as the SPD parliamentary group’srapporteuron the budget of theFederal Ministry of Defenceas well as on relations to theBaltic statesandScandinavia.On the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, she was her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on arms exports as well as onAfghanistan,Pakistan,South Asia and East Africa. Within her parliamentary group, she served as deputy spokesperson on security policy and as member of the working group on demographic change.

In the negotiations to form acoalition governmentunder the leadership ofChancellorAngela Merkelfollowing the2017 federal elections,Weber was part of the working group on foreign policy, led byUrsula von der Leyen,Gerd MüllerandSigmar Gabriel.

In February 2020, Weber announced that she would not stand in the2021 federal electionsbut instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Other activities

• German Africa Foundation, Member of the Board

Political positions

Weber has in the past voted in favor of German participation inUnited Nations peacekeeping missionsas well as in United Nations-mandatedEuropean Union peacekeeping missionson the African continent, such as inSomalia– bothOperation AtalantaandEUTM Somalia– (2014, 2015 and 2016),Darfur/Sudan(2013, 2014 and 2015),South Sudan(2013, 2014 and 2015),Mali(2014, 2015 and 2016), theCentral African Republic(2014) andLiberia(2015).

External links

• Biography on German Bundestag website
• Gabi Weber's HomepagewithCurriculum Vitae