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Lorenz German (2017)

Lorenz Deutsch (born July 25, 1969 in Cologne ) is a German politician ( FDP ). On October 11, 2017, he moved into the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia as a successor .

education and profession

Lorenz Deutsch studied German studies , philosophy and political science at the University of Cologne , where he worked from 1998 to 2011 as an assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature. Since 2011 he has been a lecturer in Ancient German Studies at the University of Düsseldorf .

Political career

Lorenz Deutsch became a member of the FDP in 1997. Since 2011 he has been a member of the district board of the Cologne FDP, since 2013 he has been its deputy chairman. On November 19, 2017, he was elected as the successor to Yvonne Gebauer as district chairman of the FDP Cologne.

He has been an expert resident in the culture committee of the City of Cologne since 2004. From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the Cologne City Center District Council. In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 14, 2017, he ran for the FDP in constituency 13 - Cologne I (district of Rodenkirchen and the districts of Old Town / South and Neustadt / South from the city center).

MP

On October 11, 2017, he moved into the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia as a replacement for Christian Lindner , who moved to the Bundestag . In the state elections on May 14, 2017, he was number 30 on the FDP state list. Deutsch is a member of the Board of Trustees for the House of History in North Rhine-Westphalia . He is also a member of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus board of trustees, member of the board of trustees of the Kunststiftung.NRW , member of the board of the state association of adult education centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, second deputy chair of the board of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of the State Wind Orchestra NRW and Assessor on the board of the support company of the Landesmusikakademie NRW . In Cologne, Lorenz Deutsch is the treasurer of the Jacques Offenbach Society, which organized the Jacques Offenbach Year in 2019 on the occasion of Jacques Offenbach's 200th birthday .

In 2020, as the cultural-political spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, he sparked a controversy about the Ruhrtriennale by accusing Achille Mbembe , who was scheduled to be the opening speaker , of anti-Semitism .

literature

• Portrait: Lorenz Deutsch (FDP), in: Landtag intern, 17th electoral period, issue 4 from June 3, 2020, p. 15

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Landtag North Rhine-Westphalia: Landtag NRW: Deputy Lorenz Deutsch. Retrieved October 11, 2017 . 
2. ↑ University of Düsseldorf: people detailed view. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ FDP Cologne | Current | | Deutsch succeeds Gebauer as district chairman. Retrieved August 23, 2018 . 
4. ↑ FDP Cologne | Liberal minds |. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Lorenz German | Landtag candidate for the south of Cologne | FDP Cologne . In: Candidates for the state election 2017 | FDP Cologne . ( fdp-koeln.de [accessed on October 10, 2017]).
6. ^ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: Christian Lindner resigns from his state parliament mandate. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
7. ^ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: First meeting of the board of trustees "House of History North Rhine-Westphalia". Retrieved June 14, 2018 . 
8. ^ Foundation organs : Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus Foundation. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Kunststiftung NRW: Kunststiftung NRW. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
10. ↑ vhs-nrw.de :: Board of Directors. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
11. ^ The Board of Directors - Society of Friends and Patrons of the Landesblasorchester NRW eV Accessed on April 4, 2019 (German). 
12. ^ Board of Directors - Landesmusikakademie NRW. Retrieved April 4, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Jacques Offenbach Year 2019 - Jacques Offenbach Year 2019. Retrieved on April 4, 2019 . 
14. ↑ SZ May 1, 2020: "Campaign" [1]
15. ^ Appeal to Federal Minister Seehofer: [2]