Thomas Webel
Thomas Webel is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.
Life and politics
Webel was born 1954 in Bad Pyrmont and became member of the CDU in 1990.From 1990 to 2002 Webel was a member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, the legislative body of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. Webel was chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt from 2004 to 2018.
Since 2011, Webel has been serving as State Ministry of Regional Development and Transport in the government of Minister-President Reiner Haseloff. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he is a member of the Committee on Transport and of the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning. He is also a member of the German-Russian Friendship Group set up by the Bundesrat and the Russian Federation Council.