Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (née Jahn, born 10 March 1958) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.[1]

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
MdB
Strack-Zimmermann in 2019
Deputy Leader of the Free Democratic Party
In office
8 December 2013 – 26 April 2019
LeaderChristian Lindner
Preceded byHolger Zastrow
Succeeded byNicola Beer
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
24 October 2017
ConstituencyFree Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born
Marie-Agnes Jahn

(1958-03-10) 10 March 1958
Düsseldorf, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFree Democratic Party
Children3
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich

Early life and career

Strack-Zimmermann studied journalism, political science and German language and literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. In 1986, she received her doctorate at the LMU with a thesis entitled Bilder aus Amerika: eine zeitungswissenschaftliche Studie über die USA-Berichterstattung im Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen (ZDF) (Images from America: a newspaper science study on US reporting on ZDF).

From 1988 to 2008 Strack-Zimmermann worked for the medium-sized Nuremberg youth book publisher Tessloff. Later she was a freelance publishing house representative.

Political career

Career in local politics

From 2008 until 2014, Strack-Zimmermann served as deputy mayor of Düsseldorf, alongside mayor Dirk Elbers.

Career in national politics

Following the election of Christian Lindner as chairman of the FDP in 2013, Strack-Zimmermann became one of his deputies. She served as part of the party's leadership until 2019, when she was succeeded by Nicola Beer.[2]

Strack-Zimmermann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[3] She has since been serving on the Defence Committee and the Committee for Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Local Authorities. She serves as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for defence policy and spokesperson for local government policy.[4]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Strack-Zimmermann was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.[5]

Since 2021, Strack-Zimmermann has been serving as chairwoman of the Defence Committee.[6]

Other activities

References
  1. "Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  2. FDP-Vize Strack-Zimmermann verzichtet auf erneute Kandidatur Die Welt, April 14, 2019.
  3. Ruhnau, Uwe-Jens. "Politikerin aus Düsseldorf: Strack-Zimmermann tritt nicht mehr als FDP-Vize an". RP ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  4. "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  5. Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
  6. Constanze von Bullion, Henrike Roßbach and Mike Szymanski (7 December 2021), Berliner Personalien: Neue Gesichter, unerwartete Namen Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  7. Advisory Board, Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS).
  8. Board of Trustees, Düsseldorf FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management.
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