Nicola Beer

Nicola Beer
Secretary General of the Free Democratic Party
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born Nicola Beer
(1970-01-23) 23 January 1970
Wiesbaden, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party  German:
Free Democratic Party
 EU:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alma mater University of Frankfurt

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

Political career

Beer became member of the FDP in 1991.

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. Between 2012 and 2014 she was State Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in Hesse.

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

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]

Other activities

References

  1. Personal Information on her German homepage
  2. German article on the event

Literature

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