Peter Weiß

Treasurer, Co-Founder of XertifiX

Peter Weiß (* 12. March 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German politician (CDU). After graduating from high school in 1976, Weiss studied Catholic theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen until 1982. He then completed a traineeship and then worked in Munich as an editor. In 1985 he moved to the Federal Center of the German Caritas Association in Freiburg / Breisgau as a press officer. From 1988 to 1990, Weiß was the personal assistant to the Secretary General and, from 1990 to 1991, was commissioner for cooperation with the associations in the new federal states. From 1991 he was finally Head of Unit in the General Secretariat and from 1993 also as Managing Director of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg. Peter Weiß is Catholic and has three children.

From 1976 to 1982 Weiss was a member of the executive board of the district association Südbaden of the Junge Union (JU) and of the JU state board in Baden-Württemberg. After he was first deputy chairman from 1989 to 1991, he was from 1991 to 1997 chairman of the CDU district association Freiburg. Weiß is a member of the board of the CDU district association Südbaden and the CDU regional board. Since 2000 he is chairman of the Christian Democratic Workers’ Union (CDA) in South Baden.

Weiß is involved in various organizations and associations, such as the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Freiburg. In addition, he is a member of the advisory board of the Pax Bank and the Central Committee of German Catholics.

From 1976 to 1982, Weiß was a member of the board of the South Baden district association of the Junge Union (JU) and the JU state board in Baden-Württemberg. After initially being deputy chairman from 1989 to 1991, he was chairman of the CDU district association in Freiburg from 1991 to 1997.

Weiß is a member of the board of the CDU district association in South Baden and the CDU state board. Since 2000, he has been chairman of the Christian Democratic Employees’ Association (CDA) in South Baden.

Weiß was a member of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2021. There he had been chairman of the employee group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group since 2009. On January 29, 2018, he was elected chairman of the Labor and Social Affairs Working Group. Peter Weiß has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected representative of the Emmendingen – Lahr constituency. In the 2013 federal election, he received 52.3% of the first votes here. In 2021, he voluntarily left the Bundestag after not running again for his constituency. Since 2021, he has been the Federal Election Commissioner for the social security elections and, in this role, was responsible for the 2023 social security elections, among other things. The social security elections are the third largest election in Germany after the European and federal elections in terms of the number of eligible voters.