Jan-Christoph Oetjen

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Jan-Christoph Oetjen, 2018

Jan-Christoph Oetjen (born February 21, 1978 in Rotenburg (Wümme) ) is a German politician ( FDP ). He was a member of the Lower Saxony state parliament from 2003 to 2019 and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 .

Life

Oetjen attended elementary school and orientation level in Sottrum , then the Ratsgymnasium Rotenburg , where he graduated from high school in 1997. He then did community service at the Rotenburg Diakoniekrankenhaus. This was followed by a degree in economics, which he finished without a degree.

Jan-Christoph Oetjen is married and has two daughters.

Political career

Oetjen joined the FDP in 1995. He was state chairman of the Young Liberals Lower Saxony from 1999 to 2002 and has been a member of the state board of the FDP Lower Saxony since 1998 . Since 2002 he has been the district chairman of the FDP Elbe-Weser. He handed over the district chairmanship to Gero Hocker in 2019 . Oetjen is chairman of the FDP district association Rotenburg (Wümme).

Oetjen has been a council member of the Sottrum community since 2001, a member of the Sottrum community since 2006 and a member of the district council in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district since 2006 . Since the state elections in February 2003 , he has represented the Rotenburg constituency and the Elbe-Weser region in the Lower Saxony state parliament, which he entered in the 2003, 2008 , 2013 and 2017 elections via the FDP state list. He was the agricultural policy spokesman from 2003 to 2011 and has been the domestic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group since 2009.

In the 2019 European elections , Oetjen was in fifth place on the FDP federal list. As expected, he was elected to the European Parliament and then resigned his state parliament mandate on June 18, 2019. Thomas Brüninghoff entered the state parliament for him . Jan-Christoph Oetjen is a member of the liberal group Renew Europe and was sent by the group to the TRAN (Transport and Tourism) committee and on behalf of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs ( LIBE ). The members of the TRAN committee elected Oetjen as deputy chairman of the committee.

Web links

Commons : Jan-Christoph Oetjen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Andretta (Ed.), Department for Press, Public Relations, Protocol: Lower Saxony State Parliament. Handbook of the Lower Saxony Parliament of the 18th electoral period. 2017 to 2022 , 1st edition, Hanover: Lower Saxony State Parliament, 2018, p. 113
  2. ^ Resignation and entry of MPs. In: Drucksache 18/4003. Lower Saxony State Parliament, June 18, 2019, accessed on June 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oetjen, Jan-Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg (Wümme)