Markus Töns

Markus Töns (born 1 January 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

Political career
From 2005 until 2017 Töns served as a member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. In this capacity, he also represented the state on the European Committee of the Regions from 2012 until 2017.

Töns became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election, representing Gelsenkirchen. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs and the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy. In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on Brexit.

Other activities

 * Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2020)
 * German United Services Trade Union (ver.di), Member