Biography
Martin Gerster, MdB
Editor, Political Scientist
Date of Birth: 30.8.1971
Marital Status: Single
Religious Belief: Roman Catholic
Education
1978 - 1982 Braith-Grundschule Biberach
1983 - 1991 Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach
1991 - 1993 Qualified as an editor at radio 7
1994 - 2002 Studied Political Science, History and Economics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Magister Artium
1993 - 2002 Self-employed Journalist for the Schwäbische newspaper, radio 7 and ZDF.
1999 - 2001 Worked with the Democratic National Committee in Washington and also in the campaign ‘Hillary Clinton for Senate’ in New York
2002 - 2005 Parliamentary adviser within the regional parliament and regional elections for Ute Vogt, SPD in Baden Württemberg
Voluntary
Member at DJV, AWO, Medienwerkstatt Biberach and Förderverein Piela – Bilanga e.V für Schulen
SPD
(1990-) Member of the SPD.
(2001-) Chairman of Biberach.
(2005-) Member of the German parliament.
Member of the Bundestags Committee:
Official member of the:
- Finance committee (since 2007)
- Sport committee
- Representative speaker for the SPD working groups
- SPD local government politics in relation to the working groups
- The federal government committee for education
Representative Member:
- Sub-committee for Neue Medien
- Speaker for the SPD-working group on right extremism
Earlier positions as Member of the Bundestags committee:
- Internal committee (until 2007)
- Sub-committee for citizen engagement