Short introduction

Christian Lindner (born January 7, 1979 in Wuppertal) is a German politician, member of the nation parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and chairman of the FDP.

Early existence

Christian Lindner changed into born in Wuppertal. His father Wolfgang Lindner teaches arithmetic and laptop technological know-how on the Wermelskirchen grammar college. After graduating from excessive college in 1998 and finishing his civilian service, he studied political technological know-how on the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2006.

After 11 semesters, he acquired his Master of Arts (MA). The foremost subject matter of his grasp thesis changed into: “Tax opposition and profits distribution. Can a economic charter be reformed? “In 2006 he began out writing a dissertation beneathneath the route of Professor of Political Science Frank Decker, which he nonetheless has now no longer completed because of his political activities.

During his studies, Lindner served as a reserve officer withinside the Air Force. In 2002 he changed into provided the rank of lieutenant withinside the reserve. In 2008 he changed into a liaison officer for the air pressure of the floor command in Düsseldorf and considering that September 2011 he has been a reserve captain.

Career

Lindner joined the FDP in 1995. He has been a member of the FDP board in North Rhine-Westphalia considering that 1998 and have become popular secretary in 2004 (till February 2010). In the nation election in May 2000, the 21-yr-vintage Lindner changed into elected the youngest member withinside the records of the nation parliament. First he changed into “Spokesman for Family and Integration” after which from 2005 to 2009 Deputy Chairman of the FDP Group in Parliament and Spokesman for Innovation, Science and Technology. In 2007 he additionally have become a member of the FDP Executive Council on the federal stage.

Lindner has been a member of the German Bundestag considering that 2009. In the negotiations to shape a coalition authorities after the 2009 federal elections, he changed into a part of the FDP delegation withinside the Working Group on Family, Immigration and Cultural Integration beneathneath the management of Maria Bemer and Hans-Joachim Otto. From December 2009 till his sudden resignation in December 2011, Lindner changed into additionally popular secretary of the FDP at federal stage beneathneath the management of birthday birthday celebration chief Philipp Rösler. His resignation changed into resulting from a pressured inner vote via way of means of the birthday birthday celebration.

Lindner changed into later elected chairman of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia earlier than the nation elections in 2012 and changed Daniel Bar. In the elections, the FDP acquired 8.6 percentage of the vote, exceeding all expectations. After the birthday birthday celebration received the election, he changed into elected chairman of the FDP parliamentary institution withinside the nation parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and succeeded Gerhard Papke on May 15, 2012 on this workplace. After the resignation of chairman Philipp Rösler after the 2013 federal election, Linder changed into elected as the brand new chairman of the FDP, in which the FDP changed into not able to conquer the 5% hurdle for the Bundestag for the primary time considering that 1949.

In the run-as much as the 2014 European elections, Lindner and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte acted as “mediators” among Olli Rehn and Guy Verhofstadt withinside the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe with applicants for the Presidency of the European Commission. Together they agreed with Verhrfstad to run ALDE campaigns to be successful Jose Manuel Barroso. At that time, Linder changed into extensively called a fellow in Rena.

Lindner changed into an FDP delegate to the federal meeting for the election of the German president in 2017, in which he supported the authorities candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In the identical yr he led his birthday birthday celebration’s a success election marketing campaign withinside the nation election in North Rhine-Westphalia, which added the FDP lower back into the nation parliament. Linder himself determined now no longer to soak up an workplace withinside the new authorities.

Career highlights

Lindner’s passionate reactions and interjections, the protection of marketers and the start-up subculture made it onto the the front pages of newspapers in early 2015 and have become one of the maximum regarded political problems of the time. Before the nation parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lindner spoke approximately the significance of entrepreneurship and the way failed marketers deserve a 2d danger while a social democratic member requested the audience: “[Failure] is some thing in that you have experience.” A connection with an Internet organization co-based via way of means of Lindner that failed after the dotcom bubble burst withinside the early 2000s. Lindner responded with a and a 1/2 of minute tirade. “If you be successful, you grow to be withinside the points of interest of the Social Democratic redistribution machinery, and in case you fail, you may make sure of ridicule,” he responded, mentioning that this member prefers a steady job. He’d been doing nonprofit his complete existence rather than bold to begin a organization.

Image, the every day newspaper with the very best flow in Germany, praised Lindner on its the front page. The Berlin every day Tagesspiegel stated that the chimpanzee gives a welcome evaluation to the “persevering with fog of opportunity Merkelism” that characterised the controversy withinside the Bundestag.

Shortly after the 2017 elections, Lindner dominated out new debt to control the balancing act among lowering profits taxes and growing funding in virtual infrastructure. He criticized the outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble for now no longer being hard sufficient on Greece and for now no longer decreasing profits taxes for middle-elegance workers.

In 2011 Lindner married the journalist Dagmar Rosenfeld; that they’d began out courting in 2009. On April 19, 2018, they introduced their separation. In 2018, he began out assembly journalist Franca Lehfeldt.