Career
Weber went to college from 1969 to 1972 and did a training as a ceramic painter. She worked in this profession until 1980. From 1980 to 1982 she was trained as a full-time union secretary.
From 1980 to 1991 she was Union Secretary at the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) in the city of Kassel.
In the same position, she was employed from 1991 to 1993 for DGB Rhein-Lahn and from 1996 to 2001 DGB Koblenz. From 1993 to 1995 she served as chairperson of the DGB district Rhein-Lahn.
From 2001 up until November 2015 she was union chairwoman of the DGB Region Koblenz. Role in regional politics
Since 2009 she has been serving on the city council of Wirges.
In the 2013 national elections, Weber stood as a candidate in the parliamentary constituency of Montabaur and at northern
9 at the Rhineland-Palatinate state list of Social Democratic Party of Germany, led by Andrea Nahles. She was subsequently elected to the German Bundestag. In her first term, Weber is a full member the Defence Committee, the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and the Sub-Committee on Civilian Crisis Prevention and Integrated Conflict Management.
On the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, she is her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on arms exports as well as on Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia and East Africa.
Weber has in the past voted in favor of German participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions as well as in United Nations-mandated European Union peacekeeping missions on the African continent, such as in Somalia – both Operation Atalanta and EUTM Somalia – (2014 and 2015), Darfur/Sudan (2013, 2014 and 2015), South Sudan (2013, 2014 and 2015), Mali (2014, 2015 and 2016), the Central African Republic (2014) and Liberia (2015).