Martin Burkert (born 14 October 1964) is a German politician and member of the

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Political career

Burkert was born in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is ...

. He has been a member of the German

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since the 2013 national elections. He has since been serving on the Committee on Transport and, from 2013 on, the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure; he chaired the committee from 2013 to 2017. In his first term from 2005 until 2009, he was also a member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. In addition to his committee assignments, Burkert served as deputy chairman of the German-Mexican Parliamentary Friendship Group from 2014 until 2019. He was also a member of the German-Brazilian Parliamentary Friendship Group and of the German-Swiss Parliamentary Friendship Group. Within the SPD parliamentary group, Burkert belonged to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. He was a member of the working group on municipal policy. From 2010 until 2019, he led the Bundestag group of SPD parliamentarians from

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, one of the largest delegations within the parliamentary group. Since 2013, Burkert has been serving as deputy chairman of the SPD in Bavaria, under the leadership of successive chairpersons Florian Pronold (2013-2017) and

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(since 2017). In the negotiations to form a

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under the leadership of

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Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Burkert was part of the working group on transport and infrastructure, led by

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and

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. By the end of 2019, Burkert resigned from parliament to join the board of railway and transport union EVG. He was replaced by Bela Bach, the next SPD candidate on the

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Other activities

Regulatory agencies

* Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway (BNetzA), Member of the Rail Infrastructure Advisory Council (since 2010)

Corporate boards

* Adler Versicherungs AG, member of the supervisory board * DB Cargo Deutschland, member of the supervisory board * DEVK, deputy chairman of the supervisory board *

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, member of the supervisory board * TeamBank AG, member of the advisory boardhttps://www.easycredit.de/dokumente/geschaeftsbericht_easycredit_2015.pdf , Geschäftsbericht der Teambank AG 2015, Seite 79, retrieved 5 August 2016. * Schultheiss Wohnbau AG, member of the supervisory board (2009-2014) * Sparda-Bank Nürnberg eG, member of the supervisory board (2005-2010)

Non-profit organizations

* Auto Club Europa (ACE), Member * Railway and Transport Union (EVG), Member

References

External links

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Bundestag biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burkert, Martin 1964 births Living people Politicians from Würzburg Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany