Patrick Kurth

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Patrick Kurth (2017)

Patrick Kurth (born October 6, 1976 in Sondershausen ) is a German politician ( FDP ), political advisor and lobbyist . He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2013 .

Career

Kurth graduated from high school in 1995. He did his military service in Diez , Günzburg and Ulm . Kurth is a staff sergeant in the reserve. Since 1996 he has been studying political science , law and modern history at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena . During this time he became a member of the Germania Jena fraternity . He completed his studies in 2002 as a Magister Artium and then became a speaker in the office of the Bundestag member Karlheinz Guttmacher .

Political party

Kurth headed the State Committee of Interior, Justice, Federal and European Policy of the FDP State Association of Thuringia. He is also a member of the Federal Committee on International Politics and the Internet and Media Commission of the FDP federal party. From 2003 to 2010 he was the chief editor of Thuringia Liberal , the journal of the FDP Thuringia , from 2004 to 2009 he was also press spokesman for the FDP Thuringia. As a direct candidate, he ran for a state parliament mandate in his hometown of Sondershausen in 2004 . From September 4, 2004, Kurth was General Secretary of the FDP Thuringia. He did not appear at a party congress on November 22, 2014 as the longest-serving Secretary General in Germany.

MP

For the 2005 federal election , Kurth ran as a direct candidate in the Erfurt - Weimar - Weimarer Land II constituency . On the FDP state list he was in 3rd place and thus missed the entry into the German Bundestag, but moved up on September 29, 2009 for Uwe Barth (who moved to the state parliament); the owner of list place 2, Lutz Recknagel , renounced membership in the Bundestag due to his membership in the Thuringian state parliament.

For the 2009 Bundestag election , Kurth ran as a direct candidate in the Bundestag constituency Kyffhäuserkreis - Sömmerda - Weimarer Land I as well as in first place on the FDP state list. He moved into the Bundestag via the state list. In the 17th German Bundestag he was a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Culture and Media . He was also a deputy member of the Interior Committee and the sub-committee for foreign cultural and educational policy. Since January 2012, Kurth has also been a deputy member of the committee of inquiry into right-wing terrorism. Kurth belonged to the German-Russian and German-Ukrainian parliamentary group , the parliamentary group ASEAN and the parliamentary group rail transport. Since 2011 he has also been a member of the Aerospace Parliamentary Group. He was also a member of the German Bundestag sports community and played in the soccer team of the FC Bundestag . In the FDP parliamentary group, Patrick Kurth was spokesman for reconstruction east .

In the federal election in 2013 he ran again for a direct mandate in his constituency and as the top candidate of the FDP in Thuringia, but failed to get back into the Bundestag because the FDP failed at the five percent hurdle .

On December 7, 2013 Kurth was elected to the federal executive committee of the FDP.

Professional

After his departure from the German Bundestag in October 2013, Kurth took over the representation of the opinion research institute INSA in Berlin in November 2013. A short time later he also became a partner at the political consultancy dicomm advisors and built up the consulting agency cc: KONSULTANT. In March 2015, he joined the long-distance bus operator MeinFernbus FlixBus and was responsible for the company's politics. Today Kurth heads the policy area for FlixBus and FlixTrain for FlixMobility.

Memberships

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Debes: Jena Burschenschaft with extremist connection. Thüringer Allgemeine , October 15, 2012, accessed on September 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Kurth is responsible for political relations at Mein Fernbus Flixbus. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  3. ^ Sportgemeinschaft Deutscher Bundestag eV - About us: We about us. June 20, 2012, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kurth, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen