Marlene Mortler

Marlene Mortler

Marlene Mortler in 2012
Born 16 October 1955
Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government
Known for Ban tobacco advertising

Marlene Mortler (born 16 October 1955) is a German politician (CSU), and since January 2014 the Drug Commissioner of the Federal Government.[1]

Life and career

Marlene Mortler attended the agricultural school in 1981, in Roth and gained a master's certificate. In 1983, she took over with her husband, the parental farm in Dehnberg and focused on the production of grain and renewable resources.

Marlene Mortler is Protestant, married since 1975 and mother of three children.

Party

In 1989, she joined the CSU, and in 1996, she became a member of the Women's Union. Since June 2009, Mortler is deputy chairman of the CSU district association Middle Franconia, and in October 2011 she was elected as a member of the CSU Board.

MPs

Since 1990 Marlene Mortler owned by the district council of the district of Nürnberger Land. From 1996 to 2004 she served as first deputy district administrator of the district.

In 2002, Mortler became a member of the German Bundestag. Here she worked primarily in the Committees on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, as well as for tourism. From 2004 to 2005, she was agricultural and consumer policy spokesperson for the CSU state group. From 2005 to 2009, she was president of the parliamentary committee for tourism, and Mortler is tourism spokeswoman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Since February 2010, she is member of the German-Maltese and German-Hungarian Parliamentary Group, and since October 2011 a member of the CSU Board in November 2011; state chairman of the Working Group on Agriculture of the CSU.

In the Bundestag, 2013, she is a full member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and Deputy Member of the Tourism Committee.

Marlene Mortler is always drawn as directly elected representatives of the Roth constituency in the Bundestag. In the 2005, federal election she achieved 51.0% of the votes.

Mortler in the Bundestag is also a member of the European Union Parliamentarians German Bundestag.

Corporate Citizenship

Marlene Mortler was 1982–2004 chairman of the rural women in the district Nürnberger Land and belonged from 1992 to 2012 as a district of the farmer Farmers Union Central Franconia and second deputy country farmer to the Bureau of the Bavarian Farmers Association (until 1997) on. From 1997 to 2012, she was the first deputy country farmer.

In addition, Mortler is an honorary member of the Board of Directors of the Promotion Fund of agriculture; until March 2013 she was a member of the Media Council of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting and the end of 2012 a member of the agricultural advisory board of the Bavarian insurance chamber.

Reactions

In her role as a drug commissioner, Marlene Mortler is exposed diverse criticism. As an expert in agriculture she was not qualified for the position, also let her use of alcohol on a certain double standard in terms of dealing with close legal and illicit drugs.

The German Cancer Aid has responded with praise, to the initiative of the Drug Commissioner Mortler to ban tobacco advertising in Germany. Her initiative failed, nothing happend in this issue until April 2015. Even in 2014 they wanted to "intensive discussions in the federal government lead it," she said in a ZEIT article.[2] The Cancer Help welcome the largest citizens organization against cancer in Germany "specifically the advance of the Federal Drug Commissioner and support them in the project." The previous bans are patchy.

References

  1. ↑ "Bayerin kämpft gegen Crystal Meth & Co". Die Welt (Axel Springer). 13 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Bundesdrogenbeauftragte für Verbot von Tabakwerbung". Die Zeit. 29 June 2014.

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