Councillor Markus Frank has been a City Councillor and Head of the Department of Economics, Sports, Security and Fire Services of the City of Frankfurt am Main since May 2011. Previously, he was a City Councilor, Department Head for Economics, Human Resources and Sports. From 2006 to 2009, he held the office of parliamentary group chairman and managing director of the CDU city council faction, which he had already held for five years as deputy chairman until then.The trained master mechanic was awarded the founder prize "Förderpreis des Deutschen Handwerks" in 2000, and has been a member of the board of the Kfz.-Innung Frankfurt und Main-Taunus-Kreis since 2005. Markus Frank was elected to the district executive committee of the CDU Frankfurt am Main in 1992 and was a city councilor of the city of Frankfurt am Main from 1997 to April 2006.