Reinhard Houben

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Reinhard Houben in February 2020

Reinhard Arnold Houben (born April 29, 1960 in Bensberg ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and entrepreneur . He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017 and is the economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group.

education and profession

Reinhard Houben graduated in business administration in Siegen in 1983 with a degree in business administration. Since 1984 he has been the managing partner of Arnold Houben GmbH, a medium-sized trading company in Cologne-Rodenkirchen.

Houben is married and has two grown sons. The family lives in Cologne-Riehl.

Political party

Reinhard Houben has been a member of the FDP since 1983. In the course of his political work, he took on various offices with the Young Liberals , the FDP and the Association of Liberal Local Politicians . From 2000 to 2011 he was chairman of the FDP district association in Cologne, and since 2012 he has been chairman of the FDP district association in Cologne. Since 2004 he has been a member of the state board of the FDP North Rhine-Westphalia .

He was a member of the Cologne City Council from 1989 to 1994 and from 2009 to 2017 . From 1989 to 1994 he was Chairman of the Audit Committee. From 2009 to 2015 he was the economic policy spokesman for the FDP council group and chairman of the economic committee. From 2014 to 2017 he was the transport policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group.

MP

In the 2017 federal election , Houben was elected a member of the 19th German Bundestag . He ran for election in the Cologne I constituency (districts Porz and Kalk and, from the city center district, the districts Deutz, Altstadt / Nord and Neustadt / Nord). He entered the 19th Bundestag via the FDP state list (8th place) . Since January 2018 he has been a member of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy and economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Network Agency and sat on the Koelnmesse Supervisory Board from 2014 to 2018 . Reinhard Houben is regarded as a sharp critic of the politics of Economics Minister Peter Altmaier .

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release from February 1, 2018
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ Reinhard Houben, Member of the Bundestag - Chairman of the FDP district association in Cologne. In: fdp-koeln.de. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Press release: Members of the Bundestag committees. In: fdpbt.de. Group of Free Democrats in the German Bundestag, January 14, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ bundestag.de: List of the 49 full members of the committee
  6. ^ FDP parliamentary group: cast speakers. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  7. ^ Federal Network Agency - members. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Annual Report_Koelnmesse_2017 . Koelnmesse GmbH, accessed on July 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Economic policy: FDP criticizes Altmaier's industrial strategy. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ WELT: Company: Altmaier wants more government intervention to protect German industry . February 5, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed May 5, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Houben, Reinhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Houben, Reinhard Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensberg