Moritz Körner

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Moritz Körner (2019)

Moritz Heimo Körner (born August 3, 1990 in Wiesbaden ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 . Before that, he had been a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017 . As a representative of the FDP MEPs, he has been a member of the FDP Presidium since 2019.

Life

Körner grew up in Langenfeld (Rhineland) and attended the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium there , where he graduated from high school in 2010. After graduating from high school, Körner completed a voluntary social year with the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia in the sports club RTHC Bayer Leverkusen . There he also worked as a hockey coach, where he led youth teams up to the German championship title. In his private life, Körner has been active in the “Charisma” choir in Mülheim an der Ruhr for several years .

From 2011 to 2014 Moritz Körner studied social sciences at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and graduated with a bachelor's degree. He then studied political management, public policy and public administration at the NRW School of Governance until March 2017 , from which he graduated with a Master of Arts.

From 2011 to the end of his studies, Körner was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

politics

In 2008, Körner joined the FDP and the Young Liberals (JuLis) . At JuLis he was district chairman in Mettmann from 2008 to 2011 . In addition, he has been deputy district chairman of the FDP in the Mettmann district since 2009 and was a member of the FDP district parliamentary group. In his hometown of Langenfeld (Rhineland) , Körner is chairman of the FDP. From 2010 to 2018, Körner was a member of the state board of JuLis in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been state chairman since 2013. Since 2014 he has been an elected member of the state board of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia.

For the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 , Körner ran in the constituency of Mettmann I and as the top candidate of JuLis NRW in 16th place on the state list of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia. After the election he moved into the Düsseldorf parliament via the list and was the youngest member of the state parliament at the beginning of the 17th legislative period . Within the state parliamentary group, he was university policy spokesman and spokesman for the committee of inquiry into the Amri case .

In November 2018, the state association of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia chose Körner as its top candidate for the 2019 European elections . At the FDP's 2019 European Party Congress , he was finally placed on the promising fourth place on the list of his party. He was successfully elected to the European Parliament on May 26, 2019. On June 27, 2019, Daniela Beihl replaced him in the state parliament.

Körner is a member of the Budget Committee and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament. He is also a member of the Renew Europe delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and an alternate member of the delegation for relations with India. He is also a member of the EU Parliament's intergroups in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Digitization, SEARICA (seas, rivers, islands and coastal areas), social economy , LGTBI , animal welfare and conservation, urban environment, anti-corruption, and wine, spirits and food .

Web links

Commons : Moritz Körner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Our Presidium. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Gutmann: Langenfeld: Moritz Körner - he almost won the "Bambi". In: Rheinische Post . May 16, 2017, accessed April 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Lena Görgens: Love for music welds a colorful choir together. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . September 22, 2016, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Heike Schoog: Moritz Körner's steep career. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . November 28, 2018, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  6. ↑ NRW-FDP elects candidates for the 2019 European elections . In: WDR . November 17, 2018, archived from the original on January 24, 2019 ; accessed on May 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Moritz Körner | Member profile. In: European Parliament. Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Intergroups. In: www.europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament , December 11, 2019, accessed June 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Körner, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körner, Moritz Heimo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden