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Joe Weingarten

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Joe Weingarten
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2019
Personal details
Born (1962-03-17) 17 March 1962 (age 62)
Bad Kreuznach, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Nationality Germany
Political partySPD
Children1

Joe Weingarten (born 17 March 1962 in Bad Kreuznach) is a German Social Democratic Party of Germany politician who has been a member of the Bundestag since 1 November 2019.[1][2][3]

Political career

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In parliament, Weingarten serves on the Defense Committee as well as on the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.[4]

In addition to his committee assignments, Weingarten has been serving as deputy chair of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East since 2022.[5] In 2023, he joined a cross-party working group on dogs.[6]

Other activities

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Political positions

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Ahead of the 2025 national elections, Weingarten endorsed Boris Pistorius as the Social Democrats' candidate to succeed Chancellor Olaf Scholz.[8]

References

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