Heinrich Leonhard Kolb

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Heinrich Leonhard Kolb (born January 8, 1956 in Babenhausen ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 1992 to 1998 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Economics and from 2009 to 2013 Deputy Chairman of the FDP Bundestag parliamentary group .

Life and work

After graduating from the Bachgaugymnasium in Babenhausen, Kolb completed a degree in industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt , which he completed with a degree in industrial engineering. In 1988 he received his doctorate with Hans Knoblich as Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Göttingen with the thesis "Marketing for Supplier Companies" .

Kolb is a partner and managing director of Kolb Holding GmbH in Babenhausen, a medium-sized company in the metal industry . The operative business is spun off into the subsidiaries Kolb Zulieferung GmbH and Kolb Metallverarbeitung GmbH.

Heinrich Leonhard Kolb has three children.

Political party

In 1983 Kolb joined the FDP. From 1990 to 2002 he was chairman of the FDP district association Darmstadt-Dieburg . From 2004 to 2014 he was chairman of the district association Südhessen-Starkenburg. From 2005 to 2014 he was also deputy state chairman of the FDP Hessen . Kolb is a member of the Schaumburger Kreis , an association of the liberal-conservative economic wing in the FDP. Kolb was also the federal chairman of the Federal Association of Liberal Medium-Sized Companies. V.

MP

From 1989 to 1992 he was chairman of the FDP parliamentary group and of the main and finance committee of the Babenhausen city ​​council .

From 1990 to 2013 Kolb was a member of the Bundestag . From 2002 he was chairman of the working group on labor and social policy, health policy, family, senior citizens, women and youth policy of the FDP parliamentary group . On October 26, 2009, Kolb was elected deputy chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.

Heinrich Leonhard Kolb always entered the Bundestag via the Hesse state list . Due to the failure of his party to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2013 federal election , he was no longer represented in the 18th Bundestag.

Public offices

September 15, 1992 Kolb was as Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Minister of Economics in the by Chancellor Helmut Kohl led government appointed. At the same time, Kolb was the Federal Government's SME Commissioner. After the 1998 Bundestag election , he left office on October 26, 1998.

Extra income

In addition to his parliamentary mandate, Kolb runs a medium-sized metalworking company and is one of the nine members of the Bundestag who sued the Federal Constitutional Court against the compulsory publication of their ancillary income under the Transparency Act passed in 2005 and failed there.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^  Dpa and AFP: Liberals: FDP circles plan the time after Westerwelle. In: zeit.de. December 16, 2010, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ MPs complain against transparent politician salaries. In: Spiegel Online. October 11, 2006, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Tagesschau.de: MPs must disclose income (tagesschau.de archive)
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Heinrich Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Babenhausen