Nicola Beer

Nicola Beer
General Secretary of the Free Democratic Party
Assumed office
7 December 2013
Leader Christian Lindner
Preceded by Patrick Döring
Member of the Bundestag
for Hesse
Assumed office
24 September 2017
Constituency Free Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born (1970-01-23) 23 January 1970
Wiesbaden, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party
Alma mater University of Frankfurt

Nicola Beer (born 23 January 1970 in Wiesbaden) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Early life and career

Beer finished highschool with a bilingual degree in German and French in 1989. She went on to study law at the University of Frankfurt from 1991 until 1997.

Political career

Career in state politics

Beer became member of the FDP in 1991. She was first elected as member of the Landtag of Hesse in the 1999 state elections. Between 2008 and 2009, she served as deputy chairperson of the FDP parliamentary group, under the leadership of chairman Jörg-Uwe Hahn.

In the cabinets of minister-presidents Roland Koch and Volker Bouffier, Beer served as State Secretary for European Affairs at the Hessian State Ministry of Justice between 2009 and 2012. In this capacity, she represented Hesse on the European Committee of the Regions. Between 2012 and 2014 she was State Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in Hesse.

Career in national politics

Beer was a FDP delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2017.

In late 2013, incoming FDP chairman Christian Lindner nominated Beer for the office of Secretary General; on 7 December 2013 she got elected (with 84.3% of all votes.[1] At the political convention of the FDP on 15 May 2015 she got reelected with 88.4% of all votes.[2]

Ahead of the 2017 elections, Beer was elected to lead her party’s campaign in the state of Hesse.[3] In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Green Party, she was part of her party's delegation. She later became a member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.

In September 2018, Beer announced that she would lead the FDP list and run for a parliamentary seat in the 2019 European elections.[4]

Other activities

Personal life

Beer is a mother of twins. In 2001, she separated from the children's father, fellow FDP politician Volker Stein.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Personal Information Archived 2016-02-02 at the Wayback Machine. on her German homepage
  2. ↑ German article on the event
  3. ↑ Parteitag in Hanau: Nicola Beer ist FDP-Spitzenkandidatin für Bundestagswahl Frankfurter Neue Presse, March 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Michael Bröcker (September 23, 2018), EU-Wahl: FDP nominiert Beer zur Spitzenkandidatin Rheinische Post.
  5. ↑ Board of Trustees Deutsche Stiftung Frauengesundheit.
  6. ↑ Thomas Remlein (September 28, 2016), Der Ruf nach Nicola Beer wird lauter Frankfurter Neue Presse.

Literature

  • Beer, Nicola, Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/2012 from 4 September 2012, in Munzinger-Archive (Beginning of the article available for free)
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