Alexander Ritzmann

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Alexander Ritzmann (born September 17, 1972 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German political scientist and former politician ( FDP ).

Life

Ritzmann attended a business school in Villingen and graduated from high school in 1994. He then took up a degree in political science at the Free University of Berlin , which he graduated in 2000 with a degree in political science.

In the Berlin election in 2001 Ritzmann was in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in the Berlin House of Representatives voted. In parliament he was deputy chairman and domestic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group. In the FDP he held the office of chairman of the district association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Due to internal party differences, he did not run for the Berlin election in 2006 ; instead of him, Christoph Meyer was nominated for the state election. At the end of the legislative period from the House of Representatives.

After retiring from state politics, Ritzmann worked from 2006 to 2010 as a Senior Advisor for the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels . From 2007 to 2012 he was a non-resident fellow of the think tank American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and from 2011 to 2012 a fellow at the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS). From September 2012 to December 2015 he worked as Senior Adviser MENA region and project manager in the Egyptian country office of the German Society for International Cooperation in Cairo . Since September 2015 he has been working as a Senior Research Fellow at BIGS.

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  1. FDP Wilmersdorf fails district chief. In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 9, 2006.
  2. Liberal scramble for first place. Local FDP associations feud with each other. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 10, 2006, accessed June 28, 2016 .
  3. FDP interior expert no longer runs for election. In: Berliner Morgenpost. March 4, 2006.