Alexander Count Lambsdorff

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Alexander Graf Lambsdorff (2020)

Alexander Sebastian Léonce Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff (born November 5, 1966 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2001 to 2019 he was a member of the federal executive committee of his party, from 2004 to 2017 he was a member of the European Parliament and chairman of the FDP group there. He was his party's top candidate for the 2014 European elections and then became Vice President of the European Parliament . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Lambsdorff comes from the ancient noble family Lambsdorff and is the son of the ambassador Hagen Graf Lambsdorff and a nephew of the former Federal Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff . He has two grown children and lives in Bonn .

Studies and professional career

Lambsdorff spent his school days in Hamburg , Brussels and Bonn and graduated from high school in 1985 at Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg . From 1985 to 1987 he trained as a reserve officer with the tank reconnaissance team . In 1987 he joined the FDP , where he belongs to the Bonn district association.

After completing his undergraduate studies in Bonn, he continued his studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC as a Fulbright scholar. There he obtained his Masters in Modern European History in 1993 with a thesis on the cooperation of fascist groups in Europe in the 1920s. He received his Masters from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University that same year with a focus on commercial and financial matters.

After completing his studies, he did internships at the management consultancy McKinsey and at the European Commission . In 1994/95 he worked for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on a project on local government in Tallinn , Estonia . From 1995 he was trained as a diplomat and from 1997 worked in the planning staff of the Foreign Office . In 1998/99 he was office manager for Klaus Kinkel in the German Bundestag . From 2000 to 2003 Lambsdorff worked in the press department at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. From summer 2003, he worked in the political department of the Foreign Office and worked as country officer for Russia .

politics

In addition to his professional activity, Lambsdorff held various party offices in the FDP at local, district and district level. In May 2000 he ran unsuccessfully for the Bonn FDP for the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia . In the same year, together with Guido Westerwelle , he founded the Internet regional association of the FDP (fdp-lv-net), of which he was chairman until 2005. In addition, he became deputy chairman of the Federal Committee on International Politics and, as head of the European Committee in the BFA, was responsible for the FDP's European policy program. In 2001 he became a member of the FDP federal executive committee. In 2006 he was the initiator and founding member of the German European Security Association , on whose board he is still today.

European Parliament

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff as the FDP top candidate in the 2014 European election campaign together with (from left) Hans-Jürgen Streich, Claudia Bögel-Hoyer and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann during an election campaign appearance in Ibbenbüren

In the 2004 European elections , Lambsdorff was elected to the European Parliament and then gave up his position in the Foreign Office. In parliament, like all FDP members, he joined the newly founded parliamentary group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). He also became Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a deputy member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on Security and Defense. He was also a member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the United States and a deputy member of the delegation for relations with Japan as well as deputy chairman of the FDP delegation in the European Parliament. Lambsdorff led the EU election observation missions in 2007 in Kenya , in 2008 in Bangladesh and in 2010 in Guinea .

In the European elections in Germany in 2009 he was re-elected to second place on the FDP list behind Silvana Koch-Mehrin . He then became the first deputy chairman of the ALDE group as well as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a deputy member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defense. He is also a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and is a deputy in the delegations in the EU - Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) and in the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

After the withdrawal of Silvana Koch-Mehrin from their positions as FDP delegation, and Vice President of the European Parliament Lambsdorff announced plans to run for her successor in these offices. In fact, he was elected as the new head of the delegation, but as part of an agreement to hand this office over to Alexander Alvaro in 2012 . In the context of the criticism of the behavior of Foreign Minister Westerwelle in the Libya conflict, Lambsdorff was acted as his successor.

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament .

On January 19, 2014, he was on the European Party top candidate of the FDP for the European elections in Germany in 2014 selected. In December 2014, Lambsdorff called for English to be allowed as the administrative language and later as the official language in Germany in addition to German in order to improve the conditions for qualified immigrants , avert the shortage of skilled workers and make investments easier.

In November 2015 Lambsdorff called for the EU - accession process with Turkey to end. "We should be honest and end the accession process," he said in an interview with the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .

Bundestag

For the 2017 federal election , Lambsdorff ran for third place on the FDP state list for North Rhine-Westphalia and in the Bonn constituency . With the return of the party to the German parliament, Lambsdorff is a member of the 19th German Bundestag . At the same time he lost his seat in the European Parliament. From the FDP parliamentary group he was elected deputy parliamentary group chairman in the Bundestag with responsibility for foreign policy .

Memberships

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a founding member of the German-Turkish Foundation (DTS) in Hamburg and the Atlantic Initiative , a member association of the Association of German-American Clubs (VDAC). He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of the European Democracy Fund (EED), a member of the Atlantik-Brücke and the Transatlantic Policy Network . He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom since 2009 . During his studies he advertised at the Corps Palatia Bonn , to which he now belongs as an old man .

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Web links

Commons : Alexander Graf Lambsdorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schultheiß: Manners: Protocol and etiquette. Private and at work , 2019, p. 52.
  2. ^ Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Origin and Family ( Memento from September 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) WirtschaftsWoche, accessed on February 1, 2015
  3. ↑ Personal. Archived from the original on June 14, 2017 ; accessed on May 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ CV. Archived from the original on June 14, 2017 ; accessed on May 1, 2017 .
  5. ^ German European Security Association (GESA) ( Memento from October 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on erikamann.com, accessed on September 11, 2012
  6. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland , May 12, 2011: Candidate fight for Koch-Mehrin's successor ( Memento of May 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland , May 24, 2011: Lambsdorff follows Koch-Mehrin ( Memento of May 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Spiegel Online , August 27, 2011: Libya political fiasco: Fischer settles accounts with successor Westerwelle .
  9. ↑ Berlin authorities don't make it easy for international start-ups , Tagesspiegel, April 2, 2014
  10. ^ English must become our administrative language , Die Welt , commentary by Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, December 15, 2014
  11. ↑ FDP: The mood is poisoned ( Memento from November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Result of the list of the NRW-FDP on 19./20. November 2016
  13. ^ Resigned members
  14. ↑ About EED , query date: March 11, 2017.
  15. ↑ Other board members ( Memento from January 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Board of Trustees | Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . In: Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom . ( freiheit.org [accessed July 13, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Lambsdorff, Alexander Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambsdorff, Alexander Sebastian Léonce Freiherr von der Wenge Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne