Birgit Homburger

Birgit Homburger (2013)

Birgit Homburger (born April 11, 1965 in Singen ) is a former German politician of the FDP .

From October 2009 to May 2011 she was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and from 2002 to 2009 one of the deputy chairmen of the FDP parliamentary group . From 2004 to 2013 she was state chairwoman of the FDP Baden-Württemberg , and between May 2011 and March 2013 she was deputy national chairwoman.

education and profession

Birgit Homburger grew up in Hilzingen . She comes from a family of craftsmen, her father ran a funeral home and a carpenter's shop. In addition to managing his company, he was Vice President of the Chamber of Crafts in Konstanz until December 2009 . After graduating from the Friedrich-Wöhler-Gymnasium in Singen in 1984, she studied administrative sciences from 1984 to 1989 at the University of Konstanz , which she graduated with a degree in administrative science. During her studies (from 1986 to 1987) she worked in the human resources department of a large company and in 1989/90 as a project consultant for the personnel management of a medium-sized company.

After leaving the Bundestag, Birgit Homburger joined the international personnel consultancy Odgers Berndtson in Frankfurt / Main in 2014 as a partner . Since February 19, 2016 she has been head of the capital office of the Deutsches Aktieninstitut eV in Berlin.

Birgit Homburger has two brothers, is married and Roman Catholic.

Political activity

Homburgers at the Epiphany 2015

Homburger has been a member of the FDP since 1982 . In 1984 she also joined the Young Liberals , of which she was state chairman in Baden-Württemberg from 1988 to 1991.

At the unification congress of JuLiA and JuLis in the Berlin Reichstag building on 8./9. September 1990, the first all-German congress of the merged, all-German youth association of the FDP, Homburger was elected federal chairman of the Young Liberals and held the office until 1993. During Homburger's tenure as chairwoman of the Young Liberals, the two German states grew together. The Young Liberals also became an all-German association during this time.

From 1993 to 2013, Homburger was a member of the FDP state board of Baden-Württemberg. In 1997 she was elected as deputy state chairwoman and in 2004 as the successor to the resigned Walter Döring as chairwoman of the FDP state association Baden-Württemberg and confirmed in office in 2010. Due to the historically poor state election results in the Baden-Württemberg state elections on March 27th for the FDP / DVP under the leadership of Homburger with 5.3 percent of the votes, a new election of the state executive took place on May 7th, 2011. In the second ballot, Homburger was just elected as FDP state chairman with 199 votes out of 400 delegates. Their opponent, MEP Michael Theurer , received 192 votes. There was a stalemate in the first ballot, with both candidates receiving 180 votes.

Since 1991 Homburger has been a member of the federal executive committee and since 2001 also of the FDP presidium. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2011. On March 10, 2013, she was voted out of office as deputy FDP party leader at the FDP federal party conference in Berlin.

From 1990 to 2013, Homburger was a member of the German Bundestag . From 1994 to 2005 she was the environmental policy spokeswoman for her group. From December 2005 to October 2009 Homburg was spokesperson for security policy and since June 2012 technology policy spokesperson for the FDP parliamentary group. From 2002 to 2009 she was one of the deputy chairmen of the FDP parliamentary group and spokeswoman for the reduction of bureaucracy . After her predecessor Guido Westerwelle moved to the Foreign Office after the 2009 Bundestag election, Homburg became the FDP parliamentary group leader in the German Bundestag. On May 10, 2011, she did not stand for election at a parliamentary group meeting for this office, after there had been public criticism of her administration, especially by her deputy Jürgen Koppelin and the chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein FDP parliamentary group Wolfgang Kubicki . She was also a member of the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

Birgit Homburger has always entered the German Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. When the FDP state list was drawn up on November 17, 2012 for the 2013 federal elections, Homburger had to forego the top candidacy in favor of Federal Development Aid Minister Dirk Niebel after ex-economics minister Walter Döring had contested her top candidacy . With 65% of the delegate's votes, Homburger received second place on the list. Because her party failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal election , she was no longer represented in the 18th Bundestag and she was no longer running for the election of the FDP state chairman.