Niclas Herbst

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Niclas Herbst (born February 28, 1973 in Ratzeburg ) is a German politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1992 at the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg, Herbst did his military service and was trained as a reserve officer . In 1994 he began studying political science , public law and psychology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel , which he completed in 2000 as a Magister Artium . After that, Herbst worked as a scientific advisor for economic policy at the Schleswig-Holstein CDU parliamentary group until he entered professional politics in 2005. After leaving the state parliament in 2012, he worked as a senior consultant in an international consulting agency until 2017.

Niclas Herbst is married to Kristina Herbst , State Secretary in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior and has three children.

Voluntary political engagement

Herbst joined the CDU as a schoolboy in 1990. He was initially involved in the Junge Union (JU), of which he was district chairman from 1992 to 1998 in the Duchy of Lauenburg . From 1994 to 2002 he was also a member of the JU state board of Schleswig-Holstein and from 2000 to 2002 he was finally JU state chairman. From 1998 to 2003, Herbst was a member of the district council of the Duchy of Lauenburg.

Herbst has been a member of the state board of the Schleswig-Holstein CDU since 2000 and has been deputy chairman of the non-partisan European Union Schleswig-Holstein since 2008

Professional policy

From 2005 to 2012 he was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament and, among other things, deputy chairman of the European Committee and specialist spokesman for the CDU state parliamentary group for the areas of universities, youth and sport. From 2010 to 2012 Niclas Herbst was a member of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.

In the 2005 state elections, Niclas Herbst received 45.3 percent of the first votes in the Lauenburg-Nord state electoral district and thus entered the state parliament as a directly elected member. In the early state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2009 , he was re-elected with 37.7 percent of the first votes. During the constituency reform that preceded the state elections in 2012 , his constituency Lauenburg-Nord was merged with parts of the constituency Lauenburg-Mitte , in which the then CDU district chairman and state interior minister Klaus Schlie had won the direct mandate for many years. Since he ran in the newly formed constituency, Herbst refrained from attempting an intra-party nomination.

Herbst ran for the CDU Schleswig-Holstein in the 2014 European elections in second place on the state list. Long-time MEP Reimer Böge occupied first place on the list . For the 2019 European elections , Böge did not run for thirty years in parliament. At the state party conference in June 2018, Herbst was chosen as the top candidate of his party for this election with 86.3 percent of the vote.

Niclas Herbst has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019. He is a member and vice-chairman of the Budget Committee, a member of the Fisheries Committee and a member of the ACP delegation. He is an alternate member of the Budgetary Control Committee and the Delegation for Relations with Iran.    

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Special election edition of the Lübecker Nachrichten of September 28, 2009, p. 13
  2. ↑ https://www.cdu-sh.de/artikel/niclas-herbst-ist-cdu-spitzenkandidat-zur-europawahl
  3. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/197412/NICLAS_HERBST/home
personal data
SURNAME Autumn, Niclas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratzeburg