Markus Töns | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gelsenkirchen, West Germany (now Germany) | 1 January 1964
Political party | SPD |
Markus Töns (born 1 January 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
From 2005 until 2017 Töns served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. In this capacity, he also represented the state on the European Committee of the Regions from 2012 until 2017.
Töns became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Gelsenkirchen. [1] In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. [2] [3] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on Brexit.