Andreas Nick (politician)

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Andreas Nick (2014)

Andreas Nick (born April 26, 1967 in Koblenz-Moselweiß ) is a German politician ( CDU ). Since 2013 he has been a member of the German Bundestag as a directly elected member of the Montabaur constituency . Since January 2018 he has been head of the German delegation and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . Since May 2018 he has also been chairman of the CDU / CSU in the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee.

Life

Andreas Nick grew up in Heiligenroth . After graduating from Mons-Tabor-Gymnasium in Montabaur in 1986, Andreas Nick studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences for Management ( WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management ) in Vallendar with semesters abroad in 1988 at the ESC Lyon (now EMLYON Business School ) and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , USA.

Graduating with a degree in business administration in 1990 then worked as a research assistant at the Department of Business Administration, especially financial and banking management at the WHU and 1994 promotion to Dr. rer. pole.

In 2005/2006 Nick completed a mid-career course at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, which he obtained in 2006 as a "Master of International Public Policy (MIPP)" completed.

From 1994 to 2005 Andreas Nick worked in the corporate finance business at several international investment banks (Barclays / BZW, Credit Suisse First Boston and UBS) in Frankfurt / Main and London, most recently as Head of M&A Germany at UBS. From 2006 to 2011 he was Managing Director and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) consulting at Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA in Frankfurt / Main.

In 2011 Niall Ferguson attended the executive education program “The Global Economy” at Harvard Business School , Cambridge MA. 2016 graduated from the program Nick "Policy Making in the 21st Century" at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.

At the beginning of 2012 he was appointed professor for corporate finance at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management , where he mainly taught courses on mergers & acquisitions and private equity until the end of 2013 .

From 2007 to 2013 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) in Washington DC.

Since 2010 he has been a member of the supervisory board of Böker & Paul AG - law firm for asset management in Montabaur.

Andreas Nick is married and has two daughters.

politics

Andreas Nick has been a member of the CDU since 1984 . From 1986 to 1990 he was a scholarship holder of the Institute for the Promotion of Talented Students of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . From 1991 to 1995 he was district chairman of the Junge Union Westerwald and from 1992 to 2000 a member of the state board of the Junge Union Rheinland-Pfalz.

Since 1998 he has been a member of the district council in the Westerwaldkreis . He has been a member of the board of the CDU district association Koblenz-Montabaur since 1991 and was elected deputy district chairman on November 18, 2017.

In 2014, Andreas Nick was elected district chairman of the CDU Westerwald. In 2016 and 2018 he was confirmed in this office.

In autumn 2014 he was appointed by CDU General Secretary Peter Tauber as a member of the newly formed Federal Committee on Foreign, Security, Development and Human Rights Policy of the CDU in Germany, chaired by Roderich Kiesewetter . In spring 2018, Secretary General Paul Ziemiak was reappointed to the Federal Expert Committee on External Security, which is now headed by Tanja Gönner and Johann Wadephul .

German Bundestag

Andreas Nick, 2019 in the German Bundestag

In September 2012 he was nominated by the two CDU district associations in the Westerwaldkreis and Rhein-Lahn-Kreis to succeed Joachim Hörster as a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency of Montabaur . In the federal election on September 22, 2013, Andreas Nick was elected as constituency member with 49.3% of the first votes in the federal constituency of Montabaur. On September 24, 2017, he was re-elected to the 19th German Bundestag with 43.3% of the first votes.

In the 19th electoral term he is again a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee ; There he is the lead rapporteur for his group for the Council of Europe , the United Nations and global regulatory issues, as well as regional rapporteur for Turkey , Hungary and South America . Since May 2018 he has also been chairman of the CDU / CSU in the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization subcommittee. Andreas Nick is also a deputy member of the Finance Committee and the Digital Agenda Committee .

Andreas Nick belongs to the Rhineland-Palatinate regional group and the Mittelstand parliamentary group (PKM) of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group as well as to the Cardinal Höffner group ( Joseph Höffner ), in which Catholic members of the Union parliamentary group have come together. In the 19th electoral term he is a member of the German-British and German-Indian parliamentary groups as well as the newly formed parliamentary group for the ConoSur states ( Argentina , Chile , Uruguay , Paraguay ) and the European Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

At the suggestion of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag , Andreas Nick was elected head of the German delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in January 2018 .

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg then elected him as one of its vice-presidents. In this function he is a member of the Presidium (Bureau) and the Standing Committee of the PA of the Council of Europe. Since January 2020 he has also been 1st Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy.

He is also one of the vice-chairs of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP) in the PA of the Council of Europe.

Andreas Nick is also a Deputy Member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly .

Memberships

As a foreign politician, he is a regular participant in international meetings such as the Munich Security Conference , the Congress Bundestag Forum, which is supported by the German Marshall Fund and the Robert Bosch Foundation , the Königswinter Conference of the German-British Society and the Bergedorf Round Table of the Körber Foundation or the "Global Atlanticists" of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

He is also one of the regular participants in the discussion group of members of the Bundestag from the CDU / CSU and Bündnis90 / Die Grünen, the so-called Pizza Connection , which has been coordinated by MPs Jens Spahn and Omid Nouripour since 2013 .

Andreas Nick is u. a. Member of the DGAP , the European Union , the C-Netz-Verein für Netzpolitik and the German Society for the United Nations ; in the constituency he belongs u. a. the Westerwald Association , the "Forum Abtei Marienstatt eV" and the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research . Nick is also a member of EFC BundesAdler eV, the official Eintracht Frankfurt fan club in the German Bundestag, and of "InPraxi eV - WHU Alumni Association".

Since 2014 he has been a member of the association assembly of the Nassau Savings Bank Association, the sponsor of the Nassauische Sparkasse in Wiesbaden. Since June 2017 he has been deputy chairman of the board of the Europa-Haus Marienberg Foundation , a non-profit public foundation under civil law that is responsible for the Europa-Haus educational and meeting center in Bad Marienberg .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Nick (politician)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Digital Agenda Committee. Andreas Nick, accessed January 4, 2020 .