Marjan Maučec mag. posl. ved

He was born on April 6 1959 in Murska Sobota. He is married with two children. Went to a primary school in Beltinci and to a vocational school of metal work in Murska Sobota. Then he dropped out of the University of Rijeka (my major was mechanical engineering) because he got married. Later he went back to a vocational school, and requalified for a cooper and timber. He opened his own cooper shop in 1984. He is still the only company in Slovenia that makes big wine barrels for cellars in Slovenia and other republics of the former Yugoslavia. In 1990, he added a trade activity to his handicraft business. He is married and a father of 29-year old Monica and 22-year old Mario. He is also already a grandfather to two granddaughters.

In 2000, he acquired a furniture company in Ljutomer; it used to be a joiner’s workshop. First, he renovated it and then began to manufacture stairs for a German company. In 2006, he rented it.

He own a 50-hectar farm, and he was granted a status of farmer.

On December 18 2006 he graduated form School of Entrepreneurship, obtaining a BSc in Economics.

He is active in Murska Sobota Assembly in the 1980s; in 1994 he was elected a chair of the Municipal Council in Beltinci for the first time. He is serving the third mandate. He participated and worked in a number of associations, for example, he was a Director of the football club Potrošnik Beltinci for four years. He is a Director of a successful women’s football club Len Pomurje.

He is a member of the Slovene People’s Party and a Deputy Chair of the party’s Council as well as a coordinator for the Prekmurje region.

He was elected member of the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia at the 2002 elections (2002-2007).

In 2007 he was appointed by the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia as Secretary General.