Ulrich Lechte

Lechte was born in Sinsheim, grew up in Neckarbischofsheim, and attended the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck, Episcopal grammar school with boarding school in Goch from 1988 onwards, where he graduated from in 1996. Afterwards he began studying political science at the University of Regensburg.

Lechte is a business economist (VWA). He worked in sales for four years until he became sales manager and editor of the Regensburg city newspaper in 2001. From 2006 to 2013, he headed the constituency office of Horst Meierhofer, then member of the Bundestag. When the FDP left the Bundestag in 2013, Lechte moved to a company in the renewable energy sector in 2014 as assistant to the management and head of controlling. From 2016 he worked as a consultant for a Düsseldorf law firm.

Lechte joined the FDP and its youth organization, the Young Liberals, in 1998. In 2010, he was one of the founding members of the Liberal Gays and Lesbians (LiSL).

Lechte became member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election. In parliament, he is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and serves as chairman of its Subcommittee on the United Nations, International Organizations and Globalization. In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the German-Egyptian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Since 2019, Lechte has been serving as one of three deputy chairpersons of the FDP in Bavaria under the leadership of chairman Daniel Föst.

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