Markus Ulbig (born 1 April 1964 in Zinnwald, Bezirk Dresden) is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).

[citation needed] After German reunification, he joined the Christian Democratic Union and was hired as the personal assistant of the mayor of Pirna, in the region of Saxon Switzerland.

[citation needed] After a number of incidents to counter the rise of Neo-Nazism Ulbig became the honorary patron of the Pirnaer Initiative against extremism and for civil courage.

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats (SPD) following the 2013 federal elections, Ulbig was part of the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on integration and migration, led by Maria Böhmer and Aydan Özoğuz.

[3] In 2012, Ulbig received a German Big Brother Award for requesting the mass surveillance of over 55,000 cellular phones gathering over a million call detail records, when on 19 February 2011 some 20,000 antifascists gathered to protest against the annual neo-Nazi march in Dresden.