Capital: | € 1.5 million |
Age: | 41 |
Born: | 07/01/1979 |
Country of origin: | Germany |
Source of wealth: | Entrepreneurs, politicians |
Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Christian Lindner (born January 7, 1979 in Wuppertal) is a German politician, member of the kingdom parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia and chairman of the FDP.
Early lifestyles
Christian Lindner changed into born in Wuppertal. His father Wolfgang Lindner teaches arithmetic and pc technology on the Wermelskirchen grammar faculty. After graduating from excessive faculty in 1998 and finishing his civilian service, he studied political technology on the University of Bonn from 1999 to 2006.
After 11 semesters, he obtained his Master of Arts (MA). The predominant subject matter of his grasp thesis changed into: “Tax opposition and earnings distribution. Can a monetary charter be reformed? “In 2006 he commenced writing a dissertation beneathneath the route of Professor of Political Science Frank Decker, which he nevertheless 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 presented 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 due to the fact 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 due to the fact that 1998 and have become popular secretary in 2004 (till February 2010). In the kingdom election in May 2000, the 21-yr-vintage Lindner changed into elected the youngest member withinside the records of the kingdom 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 due to the fact 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 surprising resignation in December 2011, Lindner changed into additionally popular secretary of the FDP at federal stage beneathneath the management of celebration chief Philipp Rösler. His resignation changed into due to a pressured inner vote via way of means of the celebration.
Lindner changed into later elected chairman of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia earlier than the kingdom elections in 2012 and changed Daniel Bar. In the elections, the FDP obtained 8.6 percentage of the vote, exceeding all expectations. After the celebration gained the election, he changed into elected chairman of the FDP parliamentary organization withinside the kingdom 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, wherein the FDP changed into not able to triumph over the 5% hurdle for the Bundestag for the primary time due to the fact 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 broadly called a fellow in Rena.
Lindner changed into an FDP delegate to the federal meeting for the election of the German president in 2017, wherein he supported the authorities candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In the identical yr he led his celebration’s a success election marketing campaign withinside the kingdom election in North Rhine-Westphalia, which introduced the FDP again into the kingdom parliament. Linder himself determined now no longer to absorb an workplace withinside the new authorities.
Career highlights
Lindner’s passionate reactions and interjections, the protection of marketers and the start-up way of life made it onto the the front pages of newspapers in early 2015 and have become one of the maximum regarded political troubles of the time. Before the kingdom parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lindner spoke approximately the significance of entrepreneurship and the way failed marketers deserve a 2nd danger whilst 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 answered with a and a 1/2 of minute tirade. “If you be successful, you become withinside the attractions of the Social Democratic redistribution machinery, and in case you fail, you could make sure of ridicule,” he answered, stating that this member prefers a stable job. He’d been doing nonprofit his entire lifestyles in preference to bold to begin a organization.
Image, the each day newspaper with the very best move in Germany, praised Lindner on its the front page. The Berlin each day Tagesspiegel stated that the chimpanzee gives a welcome assessment 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 decreasing earnings 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 reducing earnings taxes for middle-magnificence workers.
In 2011 Lindner married the journalist Dagmar Rosenfeld; that they’d commenced courting in 2009. On April 19, 2018, they introduced their separation. In 2018, he commenced assembly journalist Franca Lehfeldt.