Sebastian Blumenthal

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Sebastian Blumenthal (press photo, 2009)

Sebastian Blumenthal (born August 4, 1974 in Bergen auf Rügen ) is a German politician ( FDP ) and was a member of the German Bundestag from 2009 to 2013 .

Life and work

In 1992 he completed his school education in Kiel, initially with secondary school leaving certificate . After training as a communications electronics technician and after doing community service, he passed the technical college entrance qualification in 1998. This was followed by studying multimedia production in the media department at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences , which he graduated with a diploma in 2002.

Since 2002 Blumenthal has been working as a consultant in an IT management consultancy. In addition, from November 19, 2011, he served for one year as an assessor in the Presidium of Wikimedia Germany , according to the first report, he supported the organizational development and association communication.

politics

Blumenthal became a member of the FDP in 1992 while still at school. From 1992 to 1993 he was chairman of the Liberal Schoolchildren in Kiel, and then from 1994 to 1996 district chairman of the Young Liberals . From 1996 to 2000 he was a member of the state board of the Young Liberals in Schleswig-Holstein, including 1998–2000 as state chairman. From February 15, 2010 to July 15, 2017 he was chairman of the FDP district association in Kiel.

In the 2005 Bundestag elections , he ran for a lower position on the list and was therefore unable to enter parliament. In 2009 he ran as a direct candidate for the FDP in Kiel and won a seat in the German Bundestag via the state list. Here Blumenthal was a member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Culture and Media (chairman of the New Media subcommittee ). He was also a member of the Internet and Digital Society Study Commission . In terms of content, he focused on network policy , where he advocated extensive deregulation of the Internet.

Between 2010 and 2012, Blumenthal was a member of the FDP's policy committee under the then general secretary Christian Lindner (after his resignation as general secretary under his successor Patrick Döring) and in this function contributed to the new basic program of the FDP, which was presented at the FDP party congress on 22. April 2012 was decided

As one of only three FDP MPs, Sebastian Blumenthal voted in the 68th session of the German Bundestag of the electoral period on October 28, 2010 against the extension of the life of the nuclear power plants.

Because his party in the general election in 2013 at the five-percent hurdle failed, he also resigned in October 2013 out of the Bundestag.

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Blumenthal  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ FDP Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein: Member of the Bundestag ( Memento from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Curriculum vitae on Sebastian Blumenthal's website ( Memento from December 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Biography at the German Bundestag ( Memento from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Report from the first meeting of the Presidium, November 20, 2011 . Wikimedia Germany Blog
  5. ↑ Federal Returning Officer: Preliminary official final result ( Memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Responsibility for freedom. Karlsruhe theses of freedom of the FDP for an open civil society . (PDF) Karlsruhe on April 22, 2012
  7. ↑ Final result of roll-call vote No. 25 ( Memento of September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Blumenthal, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen