Jürgen Hardt

Jürgen Hardt
Personal details
Born 30 May 1963 ( 1963 -05-30) (age 48)
Hofheim am Taunus, Hesse, Germany
Political party Christian Democratic Union

Jürgen Hardt (born 30 May 1963) is a German politician. He is a Christian Democratic Union member of the Bundestag.

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Biography

After obtaining Abitur 1982 in Königstein im Taunus[1], Hardt served as a naval officer in the Bundeswehr for four years and studied economics in Heidelberg and Cologne from 1986 to 1993. From 1992 to 2001 Hardt worked for the federal office of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, including as head of the CDU secretary-general’s office from 1995 to 1998. From 2001 to 2009 he was a senior manager at Vorwerk, a family business in Wuppertal.[1]

CDU

Hardt was Federal chairman of the Association of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) from 1987 to 1989 and from 2004 to 2009 member of Wuppertal city council and chairman of its economics committee.[1]

Since 2003 he is chairman of the Wuppertal county branch of the CDU and since 2005 deputy chairman of the Bergisches Land district branch of the CDU.[1]

Bundestag

Hard was first elected to the Bundestag in the 2009 federal election. He is a member of the Bundestag's defence committee[2], the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union [3] and of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.[1]

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