Johannes Vogel (born 29 April 1982) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 until 2013 and since 2017.[1]
Johannes Vogel | |
|---|---|
 Vogel in 2023 | |
| Chief Whip of the FDP in the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 7 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Christian Dürr |
| Preceded by | Marco Buschmann |
| Deputy Leader of the Free Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 14 May 2021 Serving with Wolfgang Kubicki and Nicola Beer | |
| Leader | Christian Lindner |
| Preceded by | Katja Suding |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
| In office 2009–2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 April 1982 Wermelskirchen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | FDP |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Early life and education
editIn 2001 Vogel graduated from high school. After his civil service as a paramedic in Wermelskirchen, he studied political science, history, and public law at the University of Bonn from 2002. He completed his studies in 2009 with the Magister Artium (M.A.).
Political career
editFrom 2005 until 2010, Vogel served as chairman of the Young Liberals. He first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.[2] From 2009 until 2013, he served on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs on the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.
From 2014, Vogel worked with the Federal Employment Agency (BA). That same year, he became the Secretary General of the FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia, under the leadership of its chairman Christian Lindner. In this capacity, he managed the party's campaign ahead of the 2017 state elections. Following the elections, Vogel was responsible for labour and social affairs in the negotiations between Armin Laschet's CDU and the FDP on a coalition agreement.[3]
In the 2017 national elections, Vogel was re-elected to the Bundestag. He has since been a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs and a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.[4][5] He chairs the FDP parliamentary group's working group on labour and social affairs and serves as the group's spokesman for labour market and pension policy.[6]
In addition to his committee assignments, Vogel is part of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2020, he joined the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[7]
In 2019, Vogel took a leave of absence to be a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.[8]
At the FDP's national convention in May 2021, Vogel was elected by delegates as one of three deputies of chairman Christian Lindner, succeeding Katja Suding.[9]
Since 2022, Vogel has also been serving on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.[10]
Other activities
edit- Deutsche Renten Information (DRI), Member of the Advisory Board[11]
- Human Rights Watch, Member
References
edit- ^ "Johannes Vogel | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Abgeordnete". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ Ex-FDP-Landeschef Pinkwart bei Koalitionsverhandlungen Die Welt, 22 May 2017.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Labour and Social Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ^ Member Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
- ^ Johannes Vogel Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
- ^ Till Hoppe (11 May 2021), Johannes Vogel: Auf dem Sprung an die Parteispitze der FDP Handelsblatt.
- ^ Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt Bundestag, 27 January 2022.
- ^ Advisory Board Deutsche Renten Information (DRI).
External links
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- Official website (in German)
- Bundestag biography