1. Early life and career

2. Member of the Bundestag

3. Other activities

4. Political positions

5. External links

6. References

Uwe Schummer (born 14 November 1957 in Adelaide, Australia) is a German politician of the (CDU) from Willich. Schummer 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.

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:

• Parliamentary elections on 22 September 2002: 44.1% of the primary vote
• Parliamentary elections on 18 September 2005: 48.1% of the primary vote
• Parliamentary elections on 27 September 2009: 48.9% of the primary vote
• Parliamentary elections on 22 September 2013: 53% of the primary vote ^[1]

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.

Other activities

• action medeor, Member of the Advisory Board (since 2004)^[2]
• RWE Power AG, Member of the Supervisory Board^[3]
• IG Metall, Member

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.^[4]

External links

• Website of Uwe Schummer
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140911001644/http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/abgeordnete18/biografien/S/schummer_uwe/259010/ Biography of Uwe Schummer on the Website of the German Parliament]

References

• José Cibrián
• José Cid
• José Claudio Antolinez
• José Clavet
• José Clayton Menezes Ribeiro
• José Cláudio dos Reis
• José Clímaco
• José Cobos
• José Coceres
• José 'Cochise' Claussell
• José Cochise Claussell
• José "Cochise" Claussell
• José Collins
• José Coll y Cuchi
• José Coll y Cuchí
• José Colomer
• José Concha
• José Conrado Hernández
• José Contreras Arrau
• José Corazón de Jesus
• José Corazón de Jesús
• José Corazón de Jesús Jr.
• José Coronado
• José Coronel Urtecho
• José Correia da Serra