Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (2019)

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (born Jahn , born March 10, 1958 in Düsseldorf ) is a German politician and member of the FDP federal executive committee . From 2008 to 2014 she was First Mayor of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital Düsseldorf . She has been a member of the 19th German Bundestag since the 2017 federal election .

education and profession

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is a freelance publishing representative by profession . She studied journalism , political science and German at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and graduated with a Magister Artium . In 1986, she was at LMU with the submitted work there pictures from America: a newspaper scientific study of the United States reporting the Second German Television (ZDF) for Dr. phil. PhD. From 1988 to 2008 she worked for the medium-sized Nuremberg youth book publisher Tessloff , for which she looked after bookshops in North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Rhineland-Palatinate.

Private

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is married and has three grown children (a daughter and two sons) and two grandchildren.

Political party

On December 7, 2013, Strack-Zimmermann was elected deputy chairwoman of the FDP federal party at the extraordinary FDP federal party conference in Berlin , where she was responsible for the issues of community, social affairs and health.

On March 22, 2014, she was elected district chairwoman of the FDP Düsseldorf at the regular FDP district party conference in Düsseldorf. Until then, she held the position of deputy district chairperson. On May 15, 2015, Strack-Zimmermann was re-elected as deputy federal chairwoman at the federal party conference in Berlin against the Bavarian state chairman Albert Duin with 338 to 280 votes. On February 20, 2016, Strack-Zimmermann was confirmed in her office as district chairwoman at the regular district party conference of the FDP Düsseldorf.

The delegates of the 68th FDP party convention in Berlin confirmed Strack-Zimmermann on April 28, 2017, with 58.39% of the votes in their office as deputy FDP federal chairman.

At the 70th ordinary FDP federal party congress, she no longer ran as deputy party chairman, but was elected as an assessor in the federal executive committee at the suggestion of the party chairman with the second best result.

Local politics

Campaign motif for the 2020 local elections

From 1999 to 2004 she was a district representative in the district assembly in district 7 (Düsseldorf) . Since the local elections in 2004 she has been a member of the City Council of Düsseldorf. Strack-Zimmermann retained her council mandate even after her election as a member of the German Bundestag. From 2005 to 2009 she was chairman of the council group of the local FDP, from 2009 to 2014 deputy group chairman. From 2008 to 2014 she was First Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the state capital Düsseldorf. From May 26, 2014 to September 25, 2017, she was again chairwoman of the FDP council group. She was also deputy chairwoman of the Rhineland Landscape Assembly from 2009 to 2014 . From 2014 to 2018 she was deputy chairwoman of the FDP parliamentary group. On June 1, 2018, she gave up her mandate in the Rhineland Regional Assembly due to her mandate in the Bundestag. Stefan Feiter took over as her successor. Strack-Zimmermann still belongs to the FDP parliamentary group in the Rhineland Regional Assembly and the parliamentary group executive as an expert citizen and deputy member of the finance committee, hospital committee 2 and the committee for personnel and general administration.

Candidacy as Lord Mayor

The members of the FDP Düsseldorf nominated Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann at the district election meeting of the Free Democrats on September 21, 2019 as candidate for mayor for Düsseldorf in the local elections on September 13, 2020. Strack-Zimmermann was nominated with 94.2% of the votes cast and was also voted number 1 on the council list with 95% of the votes cast.

MPs

On June 25, 2016, she was elected direct candidate for the 2017 Bundestag election in constituency 106 (Düsseldorf I) at the district election meeting of the FDP Düsseldorf with a good 90% of the votes cast . On November 20, 2016, Strack-Zimmermann was elected to number 2 on the state list for the 2017 federal election with almost 77% of the votes cast at the state election assembly of the FDP-NRW.

In the federal election on September 24, 2017 , Strack-Zimmermann was elected as a member of the 19th German Bundestag at number 2 on the state list of the FDP-NRW . She ran as a direct candidate in the Düsseldorf I constituency . With Strack-Zimmermann as constituency candidate and 19.8% of the second votes , the FDP again achieved its best result in Germany, as in the previous federal election . Compared to the previous federal election, however, the FDP achieved its largest increase in earnings with Strack-Zimmermann (+ 9.2%).

In the 19th German Bundestag, Strack-Zimmermann is a full member of the Defense Committee, a full member of the Committee on Building, Housing, Urban Development and Municipalities and a deputy member of the Interior Committee. For the Group of the Free Democrats in the Bundestag is Strack-Zimmermann defense policy spokeswoman and spokeswoman for local politics. She is also the chair of the working group (AG) Defense and the AG Municipal Policy of the parliamentary group and a member of the AG Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Municipalities.

Strack-Zimmermann is also since January 30, 2019 a member of the first committee of inquiry of the Defense Committee in accordance with Article 45a para. 2 GG ( "consulting agreements"), which at the request of the FDP, Greens and the Left to investigate the so-called "consultants affair" in the Ministry of Defense used has been.

Strack-Zimmermann is also a deputy member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly .

Memberships and offices

Strack-Zimmermann is a member of the presidium of the Förderkreis Heer eV, board member of the German Atlantic Society and member of the advisory board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) . She is also the chairwoman of the board of trustees of the FOM University of Economics and Management , Düsseldorf, deputy chairwoman of the Freundeskreis Wildpark Düsseldorf eV, member of the Rotary Club Düsseldorf-Carlstadt, member of the support group of the Dusseldorf Memorial and Memorial Association, member of Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 eV , individual member of the ALDE - Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and member of the board of trustees of the Gerricus Community Foundation.

Others

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is a passionate motorcyclist. She owns u. a. a BMW R 1200 C .

Web links

Commons : Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ New district chairwoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. FDP district association Düsseldorf, March 22, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ . @ MAStrackZi was with 338 to 280 votes for @DuinFDP as 2nd deputy. Federal chairperson elected. #GERMANMUT. In: FDP on Twitter. May 15, 2015, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ René Schleucher: Circle Party FDP FDP confirmed Strack-Zimmermann as party leader. In: wz.de . February 20, 2016, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  5. ^ FDP federal party congress: election results of the presidium and federal executive committee. In: Free Democrats - FDP. May 2, 2017, Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  6. ↑ FDP Vice Strack-Zimmermann waives renewed candidacy. In: Welt Online . April 14, 2019, accessed April 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 70th Ordinary Federal Party Congress April 26-28, 2019 Berlin: BuVo - Assessor - Dept. 2 1st ballot. (pdf, 354 kB) In: fdp.de. April 26, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Katharina Gilles: Strack-Zimmermann remains with the council in Berlin. In: nrz.de . September 26, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
  9. ^ Stefan Feiter: Member of the Landscape Assembly · FDP. LVR - Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Member of the Bundestag: Expert citizen · FDP. LVR - Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ OB election in Düsseldorf: FDP leader Strack-Zimmermann competes against Thomas Geisel. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Denisa Richters: Düsseldorf: Exciting candidate freestyle at the FDP. In: RP Online . June 27, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Katharina Gille: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann is on the way to Berlin. In: nrz.de. November 20, 2016, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Bundestag election 2017: Elected constituency applicants: North Rhine-Westphalia: FDP. The Federal Returning Officer, accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ 2017 Bundestag election: Results Düsseldorf I. The Federal Returning Officer, accessed on October 30, 2017 .
  16. ↑ a b Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann. German Bundestag, September 24, 2017, accessed on April 26, 2019 .
  17. ^ FDP parliamentary group: cast speakers. Group of Free Democrats in the German Bundestag, January 30, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2018 .
  18. ^ 1. Committee of Inquiry of the Defense Committee. German Bundestag, February 25, 2019, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  19. ↑ The Advisory Board. Federal Academy for Security Policy, October 16, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  20. ^ Uwe-Jens Ruhnau: Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP): The motorcycle remains in Düsseldorf. In: RP Online. September 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Daniel Godeck: FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: The Rowdy. In: taz. July 30, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Geli Tangermann: This FDP woman likes to offend her own party. In: The world. May 24, 2020, accessed August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Strack-Zimmermann, Marie-Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Marie-Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf