• 1990–1992: Development engineer at
Siemens in Munich • 1992–1994:
Engineer in the marketing department of
Pfister in Augsburg • since 1999: CSU district chairman of the Augsburg region • 2003–2005: Deputy District Chairman of the CSU in
Swabia • since 2005: District Chairman of the CSU in
Swabia • 1990–1999: Town
councillor in
Bobingen • since 1996: Member of Augsburg district council • since 1999: Chairman of the CSU European Affairs Group • since 2000: Regional Chairman of the Bavaria Europa-Union
Member of the European Parliament, 1994–present A member of the
Christian Social Union in Bavaria and of the Bureau of the
European People's Party, Ferber is currently a vice-chair of the
European Parliament's
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs on which he has been serving since 2009. He is also a full member of the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect and a substitute member of the
Committee on Transport and Tourism. From 2016 until 2017, Ferber was part of the Parliament's Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion (PANA) that investigated the
Panama Papers revelations and tax avoidance schemes more broadly. In 2020, he also joined the Subcommittee on Tax Matters. Previously, Ferber was a member of the
Committee on Budgets between 1999 and 2009 as well as of the
Committee on Budgetary Control between 2004 and 2009. Prior to that, he served on the
Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy between 1994 and 1997. In his capacity as member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Ferber led the negotiations on an update of securities trading rules, known as
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), for the European Parliament from 2012 to 2013. In addition to his committee assignments, Ferber serves as a member of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI) and the European Parliament Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). In early 2014, the CSU chose Ferber to lead the party list for the
2014 European elections. He was replaced as leader of the CSU MEPs by
Angelika Niebler following the party's poor showing in the elections.
Role in national politics In 2010, Ferber was a CSU delegate to the
Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany. In the negotiations to form a
Grand Coalition of
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (
CDU together with the Bavarian
CSU) and the SPD following the
2013 German elections, he was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on banking regulation and the Eurozone, led by
Herbert Reul and
Martin Schulz. Ferber was nominated by his party as delegate to the
Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the
President of Germany in
2022. ==Political positions==