Nicola Beer

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Nicola Gertrud Ruth Beer (born January 23, 1970 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and lawyer . She was the top candidate of her party in the European elections in Germany 2019 and was elected to the European Parliament on May 26, 2019 and Vice-President of Parliament on July 3.

From 2009 to 2012 she was State Secretary for European Affairs in the Hessian Ministry of Justice, Integration and Europe . From 2012 to 2014 she was the Hessian minister of education . From December 2013 to April 2019 she was General Secretary of the FDP and from October 2017 to June 2019 a member of the Bundestag .

Career

education and profession

After the German-French bilingual Abitur at the Frankfurt drawing school (1989), she trained as a bank clerk from 1989 to 1991 . The subsequent study of law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where she was involved in the student body , she completed in 1997 with the first state examination in law . In 1999 she passed the second state examination in law. Beer worked from 1999 to 2009 and has been working again in Frankfurt as an independent lawyer specializing in administrative law since 2014 .

Party career

Nicola Beer with Michael Theurer at the Epiphany 2015

From 1988 to 2006 Beer was a member of the Young Liberals , including from 1994 to 1998 district chairman of the Young Liberals Frankfurt .

She has been a member of the FDP since 1991. Since 1992 she has been a member of the district executive committee of the FDP Frankfurt. She has been a member of the state board of the FDP Hessen since 1995, and a member of the federal board of the FDP since 2007 . She is also a member of the State Board of Liberal Women Hesse. On December 7, 2013, Nicola Beer was elected General Secretary of the FDP with 84.3% at the FDP federal party conference in Berlin. At the federal party congress on May 15, 2015 , she was confirmed in this office with 88.4% of the votes, as well as on April 29, 2017 at the 68th ordinary federal party congress in Berlin, where she was re-elected with 79.54% of the votes. On April 26, 2019, she was elected one of the Deputy Federal Chairmen of the FDP at the 70th Ordinary Federal Party Congress in Berlin with 58.55% of the vote.

Member of Parliament

In the period from April 1997 to September 1999, Beer was a city councilor in Frankfurt and in 1999 deputy city councilor.

From April 1999 to February 2009 she was a member of the Hessian state parliament . She always ran in the constituency of Frankfurt am Main III , but was elected via the FDP state list. In the state parliament, she was the spokeswoman for science, legal and cultural policy for the FDP parliamentary group. From April 2003 to April 2008 she was also Parliamentary Managing Director, and since April 2008 she has been deputy parliamentary group leader of the FDP parliamentary group. Due to the incompatibility of office and mandate , Beer had to resign from her state parliament mandate in 2009 because of her appointment as State Secretary. Jochen Paulus moved up for them in the state parliament. In the state elections in 2013 , she was re-elected to the state parliament via the state list.

Beer was a member of the 12th , 13th , 14th , 15th and 16th Federal Assemblies in 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2017. From 2010 to 2012 she was a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union .

Even with the state election in Hesse in 2013 she appeared in the constituency Frankfurt III to. She entered the state parliament via a list of the party. After being elected to the Bundestag, she resigned from her Landtag mandate on October 31, 2017.

In 2019 Nicola Beer was a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly .

Offices in state ministries

Nicola Beer speaks at an election campaign event of the FDP in Kassel

In February 2009, Beer became State Secretary for European Affairs in the Hessian Ministry of Justice, Integration and Europe. On May 31, 2012 she was appointed as the successor to Dorothea Henzler as Hessian Minister of Education. On January 18, 2014, she was followed by Alexander Lorz as Hessian Minister of Culture in the Bouffier II cabinet .

Bundestag election 2017

For the 2017 Bundestag election , she ran for the FDP as a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Frankfurt am Main I , and the CDU candidate was elected. She was elected to the Bundestag at number 1 on her party's state list. The FDP party chairman Christian Lindner left her in her job as general secretary even during the federal election campaign. In the 19th German Bundestag , Beer was a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment . On June 30, 2019, she resigned her Bundestag mandate in order to take up the mandate as a member of the European Parliament two days later . For them, Peter Heidt moved up to the Bundestag.

European Parliament

At the FDP European Party Conference 2019 on January 27, 2019 , she was elected the FDP's top candidate for the 2019 European elections. On May 26, 2019, she was elected to the European Parliament, where she has been Vice-President of the European Parliament since July 3, 2019. Since February 2020 she has been leading a non-partisan working group of EU parliamentarians on anti-Semitism. Beer called on all EU states to consistently implement and apply the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on anti-Semitism. She warned of an increase in anti-Semitism in the wake of the ongoing Corona crisis . For example, it is assumed that the pandemic was triggered by Israel or other interested Jewish circles. It is important to prevent false reports and anti-Semitism from spreading unhindered.

Personal

Nicola Beer is a Protestant, married and the mother of twins. In 2018 she married the lawyer and former managing director of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Jürgen Illing. The church wedding took place in Budapest in September 2018 and was held by Pastor Zoltán Balog , a former minister in the Orbán cabinet .

Beer is a member of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History , of the board of trustees of the Museum for World Cultures , since 2014 a member of the 19-member advisory board of the Heraeus Education Foundation , since 2015 a member of the board of trustees of World Vision Germany . She is a member of the board of trustees of the Association of Private Universities and a member of the German-Israeli Society . Beer is also a member of the non-partisan Europe Union Germany .

criticism

In December 2013, Beer was criticized by constitutional lawyer Hans Herbert von Arnim for “public waste”. When the CDU / FDP government in Hesse was voted out of office in September, Beer and Economics Minister Florian Rentsch (also FDP) promoted their spokespersons and office managers. The education and science union therefore held Beer against "outspoken favoritism".

literature

Web links

Commons : Nicola Beer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Personal ( memento of February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on their homepage
  4. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/politik/fdp-basis-stimmen-partei-soli-zu-aid-1.5093250
  5. ↑ Election results for the 2017 Federal Party Congress, Presidium and Federal Executive at www.liberale.de
  6. ↑ | FDP. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Sections 29–37 of the Hessian Representatives Act - HessAbgG
  8. ↑ Press release of the Hessian State Parliament
  9. ^ New ministers Rentsch and Beer appointed . May 31, 2012. Accessed on May 31, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de  
  10. ^ FDP Hessen: Nicola Beer . ( fdp-hessen.de [accessed on September 19, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Press release: Members of the Bundestag committees. In: fdpbt.de. Group of Free Democrats in the German Bundestag, January 14, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018 .
  12. ↑ German Bundestag - Retired members of the 19th electoral term. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  13. ↑ "Administering counter-medicine" , Jüdische Allgemeine, May 7, 2020. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
  14. ↑ Jan Mainka: “I still feel at home in Hungary”. BZ interview with the former DUIHK managing director Jürgen Illing. In: Budapester Zeitung of October 24, 2018 (accessed January 21, 2019).
  15. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Confidante promoted: “Outgoing FDP ministers waste tax money” , December 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Nicola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer, Nicola Gertrud Ruth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the State Parliament, Minister in Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden