Jürgen Hardt

Jürgen Hardt
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1963-05-30) 30 May 1963
Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, West Germany
(now Germany)
Citizenship German
Nationality Germany
Political party CDU

Jürgen Hardt (born 30 May 1963) is a German politician. He is a Christian Democratic Union member of the Bundestag.

Early life and career

After obtaining Abitur 1982 in Königstein im Taunus,[1] Hardt served as a naval officer in the Bundeswehr for four years and studied economics in Heidelberg and Cologne from 1986 to 1993.

From 1992 to 2001 Hardt worked for the federal office of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, including as head of the office of Peter Hintze, the CDU Secretary-General, from 1995 to 1998. From 2001 to 2009 he was a senior manager at household appliances company Vorwerk in Wuppertal.[1]

Political career

At the convention of the CDU at 15 November 2010 in Karlsruhe

On the national level, Hardt was federal chairman of the Association of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) from 1987 to 1989. From 2004 to 2009 he served as member of Wuppertal's city council and chaired the council's committee on economic affairs.[1]

Since 2003 Hardt has been serving as chairman of the Wuppertal county branch of the CDU and since 2005 deputy chairman of the Bergisches Land district branch of the CDU.[1]

Member of the Bundestag, 2009–present

During his first speech in the German Bundestag on 26 February 2010

Hardt was first elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 federal election, representing Solingen – Remscheid – Wuppertal II. He served on the Defense Committee[2] and the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union[3] between 2009 and 2015 before moving to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is also a member of the German delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly[1] and of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group. Hardt defended his seat in parliament by winning the majority of votes in his electoral district in the 2013 election.

In addition to his committee assignments, Hardt succeeded Philipp Mißfelder as Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation at the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel in April 2014,[4] an office he held until April 2018.[5] Following Mißfelder’s death in 2015, he also took over as foreign policy spokesperson of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, he was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel.

Other activities

Corporate boards

  • WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke, Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Jürgen Hardt, Lebenslauf" (in German). Jürgen Hardt. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "Verteidigungsausschuss" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Ausschuss für die Angelegenheiten der Europäischen Union" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  4. ↑ German MFA press release
  5. ↑ Gregor Mayntz (April 10, 2018), Ratinger neuer USA-Beauftragter der Regierung Rheinische Post.
  6. ↑ Advisory Board Allied Museum.
  7. ↑ Council German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).
  8. ↑ Boards German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
  9. ↑ Members of the Commission RIAS Berlin Commission.
  10. ↑ Advisory Board Civis mit Sonde.
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