Michael Theurer

Michael Theurer, MEP

Michael Theurer (born 12 January 1967, Tübingen) is an MEP for Germany from Free Democratic Party.

Affiliations

• Chair, CONT Committee on Budgetary Control
• Member, CPCO Conference of Committee Chairs
• Substitute, REGI Committee on Regional Development
• Substitute, D-CN Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China
• Substitute, D-IN Delegation for relations with India

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

(A) Occupation(s) during the three-year period before taking up office with the Parliament, and membership during that period of any boards or committees of companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies established in law:

• Mayor, Horb am Nectar (income category 3)
• Mamber of Landtag Baden-Württemberg (income category 2)
• District councillor, Freudenstadt (30€/meeting + travel costs (max. 500,00€/month))
• Deputy chair, FDP Baden-Württemberg (unremunerated)
• Member, FDP federal executive board (unremunerated)
• Chair, Support and Friends' Association "Ehem. Synagoge Rexingen" e.V. (unremunerated)
• Member of supervisory board, Reinhold-Maier-Stiftung (unremunerated)
• Member of Nordschwarzwald regional association meeting (2004-09) (unremunerated)
• Spokesperson, Technologiezentrum Horb (1995-2009) (unremunerated)
• Chair, Neckar-Gäu-Bodensee Bahn Syndicate (1995-2009) (unremunerated)
• Member of rep meeting, Volksbank Horb-Freudenstadt (income category 1)
• Member of supervisory board, Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (2004-07) (unremunerated)
• Spokesperson, Beteiligungs-GmbH and Technologiezentrum Horb GmbH (1995-2009) (unremunerated)
• Member of supervisory board, Stiftung Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Baden-Württemberg (unremunerated)
• Member of supervisory board, Krankenhäuser (hospitals), Freudenstadt gGmbH (2005-07) (income category 1)
• Member, SWR Broadcasting board, Baden-Württemberg (income category 1)

(C) Regular remunerated activity undertaken alongside the exercise of the office, whether as an employee or as a self-employed person:

• Teaching, Duale Hochschule Lörrach (since 2011) (income category 1)

(D) Membership of any boards or committees of any companies, non-governmental organisations, associations or other bodies, or any other relevant outside activity, whether remunerated or unremunerated:

• Chair, Support and Friends' Association "Ehem. Synagoge Rexingen" e.V. (unremunerated)
• Member of supervisory board, Reinhold-Maier-Stiftung (unremunerated)
• Member of rep meeting, Volksbank Horb-Freudenstadt (income category 1)
• Member of steering committee, Europa Union Deutschland, e.V. (unremunerated)
• Vice-president, Europäische Parlamentarische Gesellschaft e.V. (unremunerated)

Record of Parliamentary Votes

Election Campaign 2009

Michael Theurer has not yet pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Editorial assistant, Schwarzwälder Boten, Oberndorf (1988-1990). Studied economics at the Eberhard Karl University, Tübingen (1990-1995); degree in economics (1995).
• Local editor, Schwarzwälder Boten (1990).
• Member, Regional Executive, Baden-Württemberg FDP/DVP (since 1991); regional chair of the Baden-Württemberg Youth Section of the FDP (1991-1994); regional vice-chair of Baden-Württemberg FDP/DVP (since 1999); member of the Federal Executive of the FDP (since 2003).
• Mayor of Horb am Neckar (1995-2009). Member of Freudenstadt district council (since 1999). Member of the Baden-Württemberg Regional Assembly (2001-2009): spokesman on European affairs (2001-2009); deputy group leader (2006-2009); vice-chair of the European Affairs Committee (2006-2009).
• Chair of the Friends of the Former Synagogue in Rexingen (since 1997).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

09G302

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32(0)2 28 45572

Fax

+32(0)2 28 49572

Email:

michael.theurer AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://michaeltheurer.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Michael Theurer, accessed 02 April 2011.