January Metzler

Background

Metzler was born in Worms in 1981. Like his father, he trained to be a winemaker and studied Business Administration, gaining an Master of Business Administration and a Master"s degree in International Management.

Career

Metzler was first elected in the 2013 election, gaining the constituency of Worms, which had previously been held by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Social Democratic Party of Germany) since its creation in 1949. His first public role came in 2004, when he was elected to Alzey-Worms district council. Since 2004 he has served as Deputy Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union faction in the Westhofen collective municipal council and Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union faction in the Dittelsheim-Heßloch council.

In addition to serving as a local councillor, he subsequently spent five years as the international coordinator at the University of Applied Sciences of Worms and was responsible for supervising the student foreign exchange programs.

He was selected as the Christian Democratic Union candidate for Worms in November 2012. Foreign the 2013 election, in addition to being a candidate for Worms, Metzler had been placed eleventh on the Christian Democratic Union list for Rhineland-Palatinate In the election, he increased the Christian Democratic Union vote share by 7% on an increased turnout and beat his Social Democratic Party of Germany challenger Marcus Held.

He also called for greater support for middle-class people and opposed further increases in inheritance tax

Achievements

• During the election campaign, Metzler opposed income tax rises and the creation of a national minimum wage, arguing that collective bargaining by trade unions was a better way to achieve minimum wage standards than have it set by politicians.

Membership

Prior to his election to the Bundestag, Metzler had held a number of roles in his local party, serving as a member of the Christian Democratic Union District Executive for Alzey-Worms from 2000 to 2008, on the Christian Democratic Union district board for Rheinhessen-Pfalz from 2001 onwards and as District Chairman of the Alzey-Worms branch of the Christian Democratic Union from 2003 to 2012.