Katja Suding

Katja Suding (2020)

Katja Suding Rita (* 30th December 1975 as Katja Rita Surmann in Vechta ) is a German politician ( FDP ). From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of the Hamburg parliament and chairwoman of the FDP parliamentary group. Suding has been state chairwoman of the FDP Hamburg since 2014 and deputy national chairwoman of her party since 2015. She has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Professional

After graduating from the Liebfrauenschule Vechta in 1996, Suding began studying communication and political science as well as Romance studies at the University of Münster , which she completed in 2003 as a Magistra Artium . After moving to Hamburg , she worked from 1999 to 2001 alongside her studies as head of the Marketing and PR department at music-licence.com AG , her husband's company at the time. After the company went bankrupt in 2001, she worked as a sales promotion project manager at Otto Office GmbH until 2002 . From 2004 to 2010 she worked as a freelance PR and communications consultant in Hamburg. In 2011 she accepted a managerial position at the PR company Edelman Germany in Hamburg, which was suspended during the 2011 election campaign for the citizenship.

Political career

Beginnings in district politics in Hamburg-Altona (2006 to 2011)

In 2006 Suding joined the FDP. In the following year she became a board member in the FDP district association Blankenese . From 2007 to 2009 she worked as an honorary editor-in-chief of the magazine Große Freiheit , the members' magazine of the FDP Hamburg . From 2008 to 2011 she was an elected citizen of the parliamentary group in the Altona district and represented in the budget and allocation committee of the Altona district assembly. From 2008 to 2011 she was an assessor in the Hamburg regional board and specialist spokesperson for the regional association for budget and finance; since 2011 member of the presidium of the FDP Hamburg. In the 2009 Bundestag election she ran in the Bundestag constituency of Hamburg-Altona , but with 8.2% of the first votes and 6th place on the state list, she did not make it into the German Bundestag .

State politician in the Hamburg Parliament (2011 to 2017)

In the Hamburg state election, 2011 Suding top candidate was their party. After the mayor elections in 2004 and 2008 , in which the FDP did not succeed in overcoming the five percent hurdle , in 2011, under Suding's leadership, it managed to return to the citizenry with 6.7%, the best election result in 37 years . Since March 7, 2011 Suding was a member of the Hamburg parliament and chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. She was the only FDP politician to receive a direct mandate ( Blankenese constituency ). In December 2013 she was elected as an assessor in the Presidium of the Federal FDP.

In July 2014, Suding was again nominated by the Hamburg FDP as the top candidate for the election of the Hamburg citizenship . On November 8, 2014, she was also elected as the new state chairman of the FDP Hamburg with 70.6% of the votes. In the township election in February 2015, she was able to defend her direct mandate in the Blankenese constituency and received 30,366 constituency votes. For the FDP, moving into Hamburg's citizenship under Suding's leadership was the first successful election since leaving the Bundestag in 2013. At the constituent meeting of the FDP parliamentary group, Katja Suding was confirmed in her office as parliamentary group leader.

Member of the Bundestag (since 2017)

On May 15, 2015, Suding was elected unopposed candidate at the federal party conference in Berlin with 85.6 percent of the vote as one of the three deputy federal chairmen. She is the successor of Uwe Barth and thus the first FDP member from Hamburg since Willy Max Rademacher in this office at the end of the 1950s. On November 18, 2016 she was elected with 158 votes to 51 with two abstentions against the former member of the Bundestag Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen as the top candidate in the state list of the FDP Hamburg for the 2017 Bundestag election, and she also stood as an FDP candidate in the Bundestag constituency Hamburg-Altona . With the federal election on September 24, 2017, she was able to enter the 19th German Bundestag . As a result, she resigned from her citizenship mandate.

On September 5, 2020, Suding declared that he would not run for the 2021 federal election and would not run again for the state chairmanship or as deputy federal chairman of the FDP.

Private

Katja Suding was married to the entrepreneur Christian Suding from 2000 to 2012, with whom she has two sons born in 2002 and 2004; she lives in the Hamburg district of Groß Flottbek . From 2015 to August 2019 she was in a relationship with the former tennis professional Udo Riglewski .

Web links

Commons : Katja Suding  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Personal homepage
• Katja Suding on parliamentary watch
• Katja Suding on fdpbt.de
• Katja Suding in an interview with Tilo Jung at Jung & Naiv (2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Citizenship Chancellery: Member profile of Katja Suding . Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. March 7, 2011. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved on February 10, 2017.
2. ↑ https://www.bundestag.de/abteilung/biografien/S/-/523980
3. ↑ ^{a b} Information on parliamentwatch.de accessed on February 14, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Annett Meiritz, Severin Weiland: FDP candidate Suding: Westerwelles next top model . Spiegel Online . January 19, 2011. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
5. ↑ Jana Werner: Katja Suding leads the FDP back into the citizenry. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. February 20, 2011, accessed February 21, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Andereas Dey, Sascha Balasko: Suffrage causes surprises in the citizenry. In: WeltN24 GmbH. February 18, 2015, accessed February 10, 2017 . 
7. ^ Suding elected as the top candidate of the Hamburg FDP. July 7, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Jana Werner: Hamburger FDP relies fully on Suding. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. November 8, 2014, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Final result of the 2015 state elections: Elected candidates on the website of the North Statistics Office, accessed on March 3, 2015
10. ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/fdp-parteitag-105.html ( Memento from May 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Hamburger FDP puts Suding in first place. In: NDR.de. November 19, 2016, archived from the original ; Retrieved November 20, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Dr. Kurt Duwe is the new Vice President of the Hamburg Parliament. In: hamburgische-buergerschaft.de. November 8, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Hamburg FDP leader Katja Suding leaves politics. In: Spiegel.de . September 5, 2020, accessed September 5, 2020 . 
14. ^ German Bundestag - Katja Rita Suding. German Bundestag, accessed on September 20, 2017 . 
15. ^ FDP politician Suding announces separation from husband. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 17, 2012, accessed on February 3, 2013 . 
16. ↑ Love-off at FDP politician: Katja Suding and Udo Riglewski have separated. Hamburger Morgenpost , August 21, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .