Patrick Döring

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Patrick Döring

Patrick Döring (born May 6, 1973 in Stade ) is a German insurance company and politician ( FDP ). He was general secretary of his party from 2012 to 2013 . After the FDP's poor performance in the 2013 federal election , Döring announced on September 26, 2013 that he would withdraw from federal politics.

biography

education and profession

Döring grew up in Himmelpforten . His parents were self-employed in retail. After graduating from high school in Warstade in Hemmoor in 1992 , Döring completed a degree in economics at the University of Hanover , which he completed in 1997 with a degree in economics . Döring has been active in medium-sized insurance companies in Hanover since 1999.

Political career

As a student in 1991, Döring became a member of the FDP and the Young Liberals . From 1994 to 1997 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the Young Liberals. From 1997 to 2001 Döring was district chairman of the FDP in Stade and from 2004 to 2006 deputy district chairman of the FDP Hanover / Hildesheim. Since 1996 he has been a member of the FDP state board and since 2000 the executive board of the FDP Lower Saxony . From 2009 to 2013 Patrick Döring was a member of the FDP federal executive committee. After having been treasurer since 2011, he was elected Secretary General at the federal party conference in Karlsruhe in April 2012 ; he succeeded Christian Lindner, who resigned in December 2011, in this function.

From 2001 to 2006 Döring was a member of the City Council of Hanover and from 2002 chairman of the FDP parliamentary group. In 2005 he then moved into the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list and was re-elected as a member of the Bundestag in 2009. Here he was spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group for transport until 2012 and from 2010 until the departure of the FDP after the federal election in 2013 he was deputy parliamentary group chairman. In the general election in 2017 it did not happen again.

Since his retirement from federal and top-level politics, he has been active on a voluntary basis in Hanover's local politics: in 2017 he became councilor of the city of Hanover, he is also chairman of the FDP city association Hanover.

Döring is a member of the Schaumburger Kreis , an association of the liberal-conservative economic wing in the FDP.

Outside employment

Döring has been a member of the Management Board of Agila Pet Insurance AG since 2002 and the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bahn AG since 2010 . From 2005 to December 31, 2011 he was a member of the Board of Management of Wertgarantie Technische Versicherung AG . He is a member of the supervisory board of VIFG Verkehrsinfrastructurefinanzierungsgesellschaft mbH and a member of the advisory board of Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH (Langen). Until July 17, 2011 he was a member of the Board of Directors of WEGE RE s. a., Luxembourg. With a total of 184,500 euros between 2009 and 2012, Döring was one of the ten members of the Bundestag with the highest additional income.

Controversy

In March 2012, Döring said in a talk show that the Pirate Party's image of man was “so strongly influenced by the tyranny of the masses” that “I, as a liberal, don't want this political image to prevail”. Some Twitter users and politicians from the Pirate Party were outraged. Bernd Schlömer (then a pirate) said that he had "rarely seen such a rhetorical mistake in the political discussion about direct participation".

Web links

Commons : Patrick Döring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Döring returns to insurance . Munich Mercury. September 26, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  2. ↑ Pachyderm, sensitive . taz.de. June 20, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Döring does not run for the Bundestag again . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine . Publishing company Madsack . November 22, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ FDP circles plan the time after Westerwelle . Time online. December 16, 2010. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ Patrick Döring . parliamentwatch.de. Retrieved September 17, 2013.
  6. ↑ Top secondary earners in the German Bundestag . Heise Online . October 8, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ Döring's "Tyrannei" statement angered the pirates . tagesschau.de. March 26, 2012. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved on May 11, 2012.
  8. ↑ Döring's comparison of tyranny outrages the pirates . Mirror online. March 26, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Döring, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade