Patrick Meinhardt
Patrick Meinhardt (born September 30, 1966 in Baden-Baden ) is a German politician ( FDP ).
Life and work
After graduation in 1986 at the High School Hohenbaden in Baden-Baden Patrick Meinhardt began with a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German People studying Protestant theology at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , which he does not graduated. At the beginning of 1989 Meinhardt did two years of military service as a temporary soldier. During his school days he got involved with the Young Liberals , the youth organization of the FDP, and made contact with FDP politicians, including the Bundestag member Olaf Feldmann , for whom he worked as an electoral district employee for several years. As chairman of JuLis Baden-Baden, he started his voluntary work in politics. Professionally, among other things, he worked as a tutor and manager of a tutoring school.
Since August 2014, Meinhardt has been Head of Politics and Public Relations at the BVMW Federal Office in Berlin (Federal Association of Medium-Sized Business Entrepreneurs Association Germany eV), responsible for the areas of public affairs, public relations, economics, cooperation with associations and foreign trade. In addition, he coordinates European politics as well as the Brussels office and strengthens the federal management of the association.
Political party
Meinhardt was chairman of the FDP district association of Mittelbaden and was a member of the board of the FDP district association of Baden-Baden and the state board of the FDP / DVP Baden-Württemberg . He is chairman of the FDP Federal Committee on Education, Science and Research and the State Committee on Education and Science. From 2013 to 2015 he was Secretary General of the FDP Baden-Württemberg . He is an elected member of the federal executive committee of the FDP.
In 2016 Meinhardt changed the regional and regional association to Binz and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Since 2016 he has been chairman of the FDP Binz, state chairman of the Liberal Association of Economic and Medium-Sized Companies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and a member of the state board of the Association of Liberal Local Politicians Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania eV
MP
From 1997 to 2009 Meinhardt was a member of the Baden-Baden municipal council and had been chairman of the FDP / Free Citizens parliamentary group since the end of 2008.
Meinhardt was a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2013 . Here he was spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group for education and the group “Christians in the FDP parliamentary group”. Patrick Meinhardt entered the Bundestag via the Baden-Württemberg state list. On November 12, 2009 he was elected chairman of working group VI in the FDP parliamentary group with the policy areas: family, senior citizens, women and youth, education, research and technology assessment, culture and media. Due to the failure of his party to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2013 Bundestag election , he is no longer represented in the 18th Bundestag.
Memberships
Meinhardt is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group of the German Bundestag .
Organizations
Patrick Meinhardt is President of the German Group of the Liberal International and the Liberal Movement for a United Europe (DGLI) and Vice President of the Liberal International (LI) and the Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA). He is also one of the leading members of the Hanoverian Circle of the FDP.
Web links
- Patrick Meinhardt's website
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- DGLI
- Patrick Meinhardt on parliament watch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baden-Badener Patrick Meinhardt becomes chairman of the Binzer FDP, Rügen / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . ( baden-baden.tv [accessed on November 6, 2016]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinhardt, Patrick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |