Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (née Jahn, born 10 March 1958) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.[1]

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1958-03-10) 10 March 1958
Düsseldorf, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyFDP
Children3
Alma materLudwig Maximilian University of Munich

Early life and career

Strack-Zimmermann studied journalism, political science and German language and literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. In 1986, she received her doctorate at the LMU with a thesis entitled Bilder aus Amerika: eine zeitungswissenschaftliche Studie über die USA-Berichterstattung im Zweiten Deutschen Fernsehen (ZDF) (Images from America: a newspaper science study on US reporting on ZDF).

From 1988 to 2008 Strack-Zimmermann worked for the medium-sized Nuremberg youth book publisher Tessloff. Later she was a freelance publishing house representative.

Political career

From 2008 until 2014, Strack-Zimmermann served as deputy mayor of Düsseldorf, alongside mayor Dirk Elbers.

Following the election of Christian Lindner as chairman of the FDP in 2013, Strack-Zimmermann became one of his deputies. She served as part of the party's leadership until 2019, when she was succeeded by Nicola Beer.[2]

Strack-Zimmermann became a member of the Bundestag in the 2017 German federal election.[3] She has since been serving on the Defence Committee and the Committee for Construction, Housing, Urban Development and Local Authorities. She serves as her parliamentary group's spokesperson for defence policy and spokesperson for local government policy.[4]

Other activities

References
  1. "Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  2. FDP-Vize Strack-Zimmermann verzichtet auf erneute Kandidatur Die Welt, April 14, 2019.
  3. Ruhnau, Uwe-Jens. "Politikerin aus Düsseldorf: Strack-Zimmermann tritt nicht mehr als FDP-Vize an". RP ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  4. "Fachpolitische Sprecher". Fraktion der Freien Demokraten im Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  5. Advisory Board, Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS).
  6. Board of Trustees, Düsseldorf FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management.
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